On 05/04/12 11:59, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm experiencing some weirdness with my Logitech USB trackball. I've had
> it for a few years and it's worked fine. Recently, it's started not
> being detected when I power on the machine. This isn't an X problem:
> Nothing is shown in lsusb and nothing appears in dmesg.
>
> If I unplug and re-plug the trackball, it works straight away. Both
> Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16 (Live CD) exhibit this behaviour. It is a
> recent behaviour, nothing else has changed in the system.
>
> The trackball is connected to the rear USB sockets of my PC. Other
> devices plugged in to the rear USB sockets are not affected: USB sound
> device, USB hard disks, USB graphics tablet.
>
> I suspected a hardware fault, but have bought a new trackball and it
> exhibits the same problem. There are two front USB sockets and they also
> seem to exhibit the same behaviour, but less consistently.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
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Have you tried using the trackball on another system Tony? That way, we
can rule out of it is the trackball or the system.
Cheers
Dominic.
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