Re: [support-gang] XO 1.5 troubles: Touchpad has become non-responsive after an update

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Kevin wrote
> > [ If the mouse was not working, how did you get from Sugar to
> GNOME ? ]
>  
>  1. Ctrl-Alt-Neighborhood (a.k.a. Ctrl-Alt-F1) gets me to the shell as root.
>  2. "nano -bkw /home/olpc/.olpc-active-desktop"
>  3. Change "sugar" to "gnome"
>  4. Save and reboot
>  
>  Non-shell-users: Note the period at the start of .olpc-active-desktop. 
Interesting.  There is no such file on my XO-1.5  (nor on any XO-1).

Is that because I normally never switch between Sugar and GNOME ?


mikus  (XO-1.5 B2, q3a39b, os125)

[support-gang] XO 1.5 troubles: Touchpad has become non-responsive after an update

[Paul Fox]

mikus wrote:
>  Kevin wrote
>  >> [ If the mouse was not working, how did you get from Sugar to GNOME ? ]
>  > 
>  > 1. Ctrl-Alt-Neighborhood (a.k.a. Ctrl-Alt-F1) gets me to the shell as root.
>  > 2. "nano -bkw /home/olpc/.olpc-active-desktop"
>  > 3. Change "sugar" to "gnome"
>  > 4. Save and reboot
>  > 
>  > Non-shell-users: Note the period at the start of .olpc-active-desktop.
>  
>  Interesting.  There is no such file on my XO-1.5  (nor on any XO-1).
>  
>  Is that because I normally never switch between Sugar and GNOME ? 
yes.
 
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 paul fox, pgf(a)laptop.org