Hack to get Mouse to Work Acer Aspire One 722 and Linux Mint

After dual booting my Acer Aspire One 722 netbook with Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint 14, I found that my mouse did not completely work on boot up in Mint. This was problematic for me. I wanted to learn Linux Mint and after a little work on google, I found this work around work around... two terminal commands that completely fixed the problem:

      sudo modprobe -r psmouse 

      sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

This was a fine work around, except that I hated having to try to launch the terminal and run these commands with a half crippled mouse. Even cntr-shift-T did not launch the terminal making me believe that the keyboard might not have been fully functional either.

Acer Aspire One 722 netbook

Because of this problem, I wanted to find a workaround to this problem. I knew that if I could put these commands in a file that was run during boot, that this problem would be fixed. After several hours of Googling, I figured out that I could place these commands in the/etc/rc.local file. I found out that the commands placed in this file are run as root at the end of the boot sequence. In order to open up this file run the following command:

        sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

Once this command is run (As can be seen in the below screenshot) then we can edit the file located in /etc/rc.local.



Screenshot of the Terminal opening the /etc/rc.local configuration file as root

The /etc/rc.local file after modification