Sounds to me as if you need to replace the battery. On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 at 2:52am, Pigeon wrote:
:On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:33:54PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: :> 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? : :It might be the X-doesn't-reset-the-mouse bug which tends to show up :in dual-boot situations. What happens is that X doesn't reset the :mouse before trying to initialise it. If it's already been initialised :by Windoze it then doesn't respond correctly to the initialisation :sequence that X sends it. To get it going again reset the mouse by hand: : :- kill X :echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux :- restart X : : -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
