Logitech Trackball M570 not working; cursor flickers often?

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JadedCtrl
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Hi, all~

I'm new to the world of Trisquel, and have just recieved a Think Penguin laptop that comes with it. However, I have encountered these two problems:
-The Logitech M570 Trackball does not seem to work...
-The cursor flickers whenever I click.
This is rather odd.
(Oh, and if anyone knows how to install GNOME 3 (Not classic/fallback) in Trisquel 6, could you point it out?)

Thank you very much for taking the time to even glance at this topic!

JadedCtrl
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Might I add that the trackball works with Blag, and Blag does not have the flickering. I think that perhaps my current install of Trisquel has an older version of the Linux Libre kernel and I need to install a more recent one.

lembas
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JadedCtrl
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Now the Logitech works and the cursor no longer flickers! Thank you very, very much!

lembas
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Glad to hear that, enjoy freedom!

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For a full GNOME 3 experience, install the "gnome-shell" and the "gnome-session" packages (e.g., from the Synaptic package manager), log out and change the session for "GNOME" on the graphical login screen.

JadedCtrl
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Thank you very much! That didn't work on my previous install of Trisquel, of which ThinkPenguin had pre-installed. I just did a fresh install, and this works.

onpon4
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It can't be that it needs a recent version of the kernel if it works with BLAG; BLAG's kernel would be 2.6.35. (Might be an incompatibility, though.)