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[Salvador Diaz <diaz.salvador+launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

After trying several things to get the extra side buttons on my
microsoft mouse to work (which btw work fine on another ubuntu install
on a desktop pc) I had completely given up.

Then I started looking about the caps lock light not working and found
out that it was mouseemu's fault, so I uninstalled it and lo and behold:
my side buttons started to work ! Please, get ride of mouseemu already
(at least on macs)

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Mouseemu installed, not wanted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251830
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Status in Mactel Support: Confirmed
Status in “hw-detect” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “mouseemu” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Hi,

I have an Intel Mac Mini, a Core Duo 1.66 GHz. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1 on it. Hardware info: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/stats/mac_mini_cd_1.66.html

Mouseemu was installed by the Ubuntu installer, and was running on the machine. As a Mini is not a laptop, mouseemu caused the mouse to stop / lag when I typed stuff on the keyboard. It was kind of hard to discover what was going on.

There's some small fix somewhere in the hardware detection routines I guess - the Mac Mini seems to be reported as a laptop, though it doesn't have a trackpad.