On 2004-04-23, Dave Howorth penned: > Hello, > > My mouse just started behaving strangely, although I haven't done > anything, to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully somebody will have an > idea what to try! > > I was using my system (woody) as I have for the past many months when > the mouse suddenly froze. It's a Logitech cordless M-RN66, plugged in > via the PS/2 port. I hadn't changed anything immediately prior to the > freeze, for that matter I haven't changed any system level things for > quite a while. > > I rebooted into Windows 2000 and the mouse was frozen there too. I > switched to another mouse (corded PS/2 Logitech M-CAA43), pushing the > connector in and out a few times to clean it. I booted into Windows > again and it appeared to work. I rebooted into Debian and now have > weird behaviour. The pointer starts in the centre of the screen but as > soon as I start moving the mouse around it jumps to the bottom left. > If I move the mouse up and right, the pointer tracks up and right for > a few inches and then jumps back to the bottom left corner again. > > Feels like a hardware problem to me - has anybody seen these symptoms > before? >
I suppose it's possible that you somehow fried your PS/2 connector ... The initial symptoms sound like a low battery to me. Maybe the corded mouse happens to need a different entry in your XF86Config-4 than does the cordless one? So you had a low battery, switched to a corded, windows used it properly, but debian didn't know what to do with it? Just a thought. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
