Kixtosh
January 25th, 2016, 01:09 AM
Hello!
It was time for me to upgrade from Lucid Lynx, so I installed 14.04.3 on a Live USB drive, and it worked so well that I actually used it like that for a few months to see if I could get used to Unity instead of Gnome. I don't love Unity, but it has some advantages, so now I'm ready to install it on the main HDD, but, when after I did so:
There is now no mouse cursor at all and the touchpad does not work (either the pad or the L/R click buttons).
There is no mouse cursor if I plug in a regular USB mouse.
Bluetooth is not detected (I was using a Bluetooth mouse from the LiveUSB trial version).
There doesn't appear to be any WiFi either.
Everything is excruciatingly slow in comparison to Lucid Lynx on the HDD, or Trusty Tahr on the Live USB. For example, when just starting a search from Dash, the search box and windows appear as if they were in slow motion.
I actually noticed during boot that the mouse cursor seems to flash for about one second on a blank (black) screen after the Ubuntu startup splash screen disappears, and before the desktop is shown.
This is a Toshiba Portégé R500 with permanent SDD.
I can't imagine this is that difficult to solve, if everything worked when using the Live USB installation. I don't mind using Terminal commands, and I can get to keyboard shortcuts to use those. I just don't really know where to start.
It was time for me to upgrade from Lucid Lynx, so I installed 14.04.3 on a Live USB drive, and it worked so well that I actually used it like that for a few months to see if I could get used to Unity instead of Gnome. I don't love Unity, but it has some advantages, so now I'm ready to install it on the main HDD, but, when after I did so:
There is now no mouse cursor at all and the touchpad does not work (either the pad or the L/R click buttons).
There is no mouse cursor if I plug in a regular USB mouse.
Bluetooth is not detected (I was using a Bluetooth mouse from the LiveUSB trial version).
There doesn't appear to be any WiFi either.
Everything is excruciatingly slow in comparison to Lucid Lynx on the HDD, or Trusty Tahr on the Live USB. For example, when just starting a search from Dash, the search box and windows appear as if they were in slow motion.
I actually noticed during boot that the mouse cursor seems to flash for about one second on a blank (black) screen after the Ubuntu startup splash screen disappears, and before the desktop is shown.
This is a Toshiba Portégé R500 with permanent SDD.
I can't imagine this is that difficult to solve, if everything worked when using the Live USB installation. I don't mind using Terminal commands, and I can get to keyboard shortcuts to use those. I just don't really know where to start.