Hi, I wasn't sure whether this went under the Hardware section but since I'm new to Linux I'll just start here.
I have put my system specs in my signature. Currently, I have installed Linux Mint in the new system listed, alongside Win XP, and Mint has it's own /, home/, and swap partitions (so it's a real install and not WUBI).
My main problem is, sometimes when I boot Mint, my USB Laser mouse has no power and does not work. Unplugging and plugging it back in fixes it, or so does a reboot sometimes since this problem is intermittent. My keyboard is USB and that always works, also I have a USB game controller that seems to be getting power as well. The mouse is a Microsoft Sidewinder X3 Laser mouse. It uses the standard Microsoft intellipoint drivers under Windows, and I have no problems with it under XP. When it is detected, it works perfectly, and I never "lose" it or have any problems. It has two extra buttons, one on each side of the mouse that act as forward/back buttons in a browser and these also work correctly with Mint.
If you would like the results of running Xinput list, let me know, I was going to include it here but it seemed to make the post much longer and I wasn't sure of the value in this.
Also here is my Xorg.conf:
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection
Now, while troubleshooting this, I noticed I get a very quick list or errors when I boot, after GRUB but right before the Mint logo. It is less than 1 second, I had to actually record the screen with a video camera to get a screen grab of the errors. Here is what I saw:
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Starting up...
[ 2.372042] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
[ 4.232048] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
[ 4.426404] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain
to your BIOS vendor.
[ 4.426463] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain
to your BIOS vendor.
[ 4.426519] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain
to your BIOS vendor.
[ 4.426574] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain
to your BIOS vendor.
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