Re: MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

From: Travis Fraser (travis_at_snowpatch.net)
Date: 03/10/04

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:37:30 -0500

    On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 08:28, Andre Costa wrote:
    > On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:55:02 -0500
    > Travis Fraser <travis@snowpatch.net> wrote:
    >
    > > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 22:08, Andre Costa wrote:
    > > > Hi,
    > > >
    > > > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a
    > > > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains
    > > > responsive(keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides
    > > > killing X11 with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some
    > > > work. Restarting X brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had
    > > > happened.
    > > >
    > > > Mouse is MS IntelliMouse Wheel Optical, graphics board is a GeForce4
    > > > Ti4200, XFree is latest version (4.3.0-55), NVidia drivers are also
    > > > latest (5336).
    > > >
    > > > I can't really precise if this started happening after latest X
    > > > update-- been using this configuration for a while already, and
    > > > never experienced any such problems. Also, problem doesn't seem to
    > > > be repeatable on windoze on the same machine.
    > > >
    > > > It could of course be a hardware (mouse) problem, but I would like
    > > > to know if anyone had any similar experience -- or has any
    > > > black-magic procedure to make X "re-probe" the mouse...
    > > >
    > > > TIA
    > > >
    > > > Andre
    > > >
    > > > --
    > > > Andre Oliveira da Costa
    > > >
    > > I have noticed twice in the last two weeks my mouse acting the same
    > > way. I assumed it was a hardware thing. When it happened I used the
    > > keyboard to shutdown my programs and then restarted the computer. I
    > > will check next time if it is just restarting X that fixes it.
    >
    > Mmmh... this is interesting. Do you also use NVidia's driver?
    >
    I have an ATI Rage128 video card with standard ati driver. Latest XFree
    update. Mouse is Logitech corded optical wheel mouse. The mouse protocol
    is IMPS/2. My uptime is 11 days since last mouse trouble.

    Travis Fraser 

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