The setup: Sunray2 DTUs, SRSS 4.2 final but unpatched on Debian Squeeze, and since three weeks new Type 7 keyboards, Sun FID-638 mice. The mice are plugged into a keyboard USB connector, the keyboard is plugged into a powered USB hub, the hub is attached to the DTU.
Two days ago all of a sudden my mouse arrow began to wander, not far but randomly and far and fast enough around its intended location, maybe two or three arrowlengths maximum, to make clicking a smaller target area impossible at times, occasionally this behavior would pause for 10 or 20 seconds, or the extent of the movements went back to micro movements over a distance of just a few pixels. This happened on both of my SOHO DTU workplaces but my secretary did not report the strange mouse behavior in first place because she experienced it only ever so slightly and found it just an almost cosmetic annoyance, but for me it was an intermittent showstopper. Unplugging the mouse left the arrow wandering on the screen. Powering the DTU off and on did not help. A reboot of the server and using the previously used Benq cheapo USB mouse, daringly plugged into the keyboard connector instead of the hub as before the arrival of the Type 7 keyboards, solved the problem for now. Does anyone have an idea what happened there? Was this due to an incompatibility of the powered USB hub with the Sun mice? Or are both mice from a bad batch? But why does the DTU and/or server software keep up the strange behavior even when the mouse has been pulled out? I'd actually like to use the Sun mice again. Regards, Andreas Heydwolff _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
