I am racking my brains out trying to solve this.

[Maelstorm]

i've got an i7950/nvidiagtx 460se. i tried installing ubuntu 12.04. everything went fine up untill install was over. When i opened firefox i could not click any links or buttons in firefox. i could click file edit view ect and the side bar with other icons. somehow i don't remeber how pure luck mostly i finally would get to be able to click inside fire fox but then i couldn't click on anything outside. if i saved a file the dialog box would pop up and if i tried to click it it just din't work. instead the click went straigth through to firefox. this happened with EVERY app. if i opened anything i couldn't click on anything in it i had to tab over to that and hit enter or space. i did this with default non proprietary nvidia driver. i did it with all 3 bundled nvidia drivers. i even downloaded the nvidia drivers from it's website and i think i installed it right (long ass methods that varied from one to another.) after about 5 hrs i gave up and tried mint. same problems. i tried the irc chat but seems slammed and i was just told that proprietary drivers just don't work most of the time. so basically no help there.

[searchfgold6789]

Which driver are you using now (from Additional Drivers or nVidia website and what version), and what is the state of the machine?
Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

[Maelstorm]

Which driver are you using now (from Additional Drivers or nVidia website and what version), and what is the state of the machine?
Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

can't post the /var/log/Xorg.0.log as i removed .. i'll try resintalling today again and since i know it will happen i'll post it afterwards.

After fresh install it uses nouveau and it does it.
i did the recommended driver (duno what number but ti's the first one in the list when i clicked the driver icon. Still did it
i tried the 2nd driver (post update) and it still did it.
i tried the latest driver on the list .. still did it

i tried downloading the latest .run file from nvidia (319 i belive) and it gave me an error about install script and after the install almost semed to work but no it still messed up.

i followed multiple guides (including blacklisting the nouveau driver. still did it.)

i even followed one guide that had me ctrl-f1 to exit to terminal and do it all from command prompt. still din't work.

this help narrow it down? I really don't think it's the video drivers. it has to do with mouse focus locking into inside firefox.

example: if i was in the install right now i could type all this but i could not click on file edit view ect.. if i right clicked an image and save image. the popup with save options would be unclickable. if i clicked on anything on that it the mouse would actually ignore it and still be clicking on firefox (if there is a link or something to click that would get clicked instead of the new pop up. also can't click on icons on the right side bar.

i have to close firefox .. and sometimes i can click it. most of the time i still can't click any icons unless i restart the machine.

i tried using special key to open the ubuntu icon (top icon) and i could type xterm to get the shell. from there i could type but not paste into it. if i tried to type in a dialog box in firefox any typing went to the terminal instead. i could not click on firefox to get it to shift focus back untill i closed xterm.

Could mouse drivers be causing this? i'm using a rat 7 but i din't load any special settings for it i just went with whatever ubuntu defaulted to (all the buttons worked fine).

[searchfgold6789]

Good call on the mouse! I found a guide here: http://fcns.eu/2011/04/01/cyborg-rat...e-under-linux/

[Maelstorm]

Good call on the mouse! I found a guide here: http://fcns.eu/2011/04/01/cyborg-rat...e-under-linux/

brb pounding my head against a brick wall for all the time i've spent messing with video drivers. lol thanks. i'm writing the info down so when i re-install i'll be doing this. it looks like the exact problem i am having. i'll reply here later on tonight with if it fixes it up.

Update:

i followed the instructions you linked but it seemed to mess up a little.

when i first did the edit i realized there was no xorg.conf file. so i decided to run the nvidia install from the default 3 options in base install. that generated an almost empty xorg.conf file. i then edited it in pico instead and added what it stated.

seems to be working now. thanks!