Erratic mouse behavior in 12.04

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/06/12 17:19, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 05/06/12 08:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 03/06/12 00:48, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>>> Em s�bado, 02 de junho de 2012, �s 16:40:26, Basil Chupin escreveu:
>>>> On 31/05/12 03:40, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...........]
>>>>
>>>>> It's not that I'm ignoring your suggestion, it's just that it's 
>>>>> not so
>>>>> simple to test it. Right now, Xorg can't even see the nvidia GPU. 
>>>>> It is
>>>>> "disabled", so to speak (not exactly, is on and consuming power, but
>>>>> it's
>>>>> invisible for the system). Only the Intel GPU is visible
>>>> Forgive me if I am misunderstanding something here...... but whatever
>>>> graphic device you want to use is controlled by what you set it to 
>>>> be in
>>>> your BIOS.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying that you have your BIOS set to use the Intel GPU on the
>>>> motherboard?
>>> No, unfortunately my BIOS does not have an option to set the GPU to be
>>> used. I
>>> wish it had, it would be so much simpler to use the nvidia GPU...
>>
>> [.........]
>>
>> I am not ignoring what you wrote in what I have just trimmed and neither
>> am I belabouring the point, but I find it most strange that your BIOS -
>> even if it is on a Dell computer - not to have the ability to choose
>> which video to use.
>>
>> As far as I know - which is not much - your BIOS will show the standard
>> options when you enter the BIOS settings (?CTRL-DEL? or does Dell use
>> some other combination of keys?) but then if you press something like
>> CTRL-Fx you will get additional options displayed. Have you tried this
>> to see what those "hidden" options are?
>>
>
> Believe me.. there are some "modern" BIOS that are severely hampered 
> in what you can do. I have a HP Pavillion with the freaking hybrid 
> graphics. There IS an option in bios to select hybrid or one card - if 
> you can find it as you have to open BIOS with a special keycombination 
> to get to that setting. AND it does not work... apparently there is a 
> "key setting" when BIOS is compiled that disables it. Further I can 
> not switch off the fingerprint-reader I have no intention of ever 
> using and so on and so forth.
>
> Never HP again.
>
> Sinclair

Unbelievable.......

Which only confirms my conclusion I came to many years ago never to buy 
any brand name computer (Dell, HP, Acer, whatever...) but build my own 
using components which *I* chose to go into the box. The last "branded" 
box I bought was way back in 1989. (What was the brand? I just don't 
remember - nor care.)

BC

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