Hi all,

I wanted to check if anyone happens to know what could have caused this. I am running 8.04 (yeah I know it's old, I'll upgrade soon), and I just picked up a synaptec update that has killed my mouse wheel.

I tried all the basic stuff (plug into other USB port, cold-boot the box, etc.) Nothing has worked so far.

The update history shows the following:

Code:
Commit Log for Tue Sep 21 18:50:58 2010


Upgraded the following packages:
bzip2 (1.0.4-2ubuntu4) to 1.0.4-2ubuntu4.1
dpkg (1.14.16.6ubuntu4.1) to 1.14.16.6ubuntu4.2
dpkg-dev (1.14.16.6ubuntu4.1) to 1.14.16.6ubuntu4.2
libapache2-mod-php5 (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10) to 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12
libbz2-1.0 (1.0.4-2ubuntu4) to 1.0.4-2ubuntu4.1
php5 (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10) to 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12
php5-cli (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10) to 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12
php5-common (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10) to 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12
None of this stuff is related to mouse drivers (or any drivers, really) so I'm very confused as to how it would break it like that.

The mouse section of my xorg.cfg looks like this:

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
EndSection
That file hasn't been changed since march 2008 though so I don't think anything would have broken it...

Does anyone know of what could break it, and in what other ways I could diagnose it? Thanks much!