mouse crazy

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 17:14:04 +0400
Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> One computer is of my wife (Windows). It used usb mouse. Another 
> computer is mine (Linux). It also uses usb mouse.
> 
> On both, mouse worked great, until I touched it.
> 
> I swear, I did not do anything wrong!!!
> 
> I just connected mouse to another usb outlet. Connecting back to 
> previous usb slot did not help.
> 
> Now, the mouse pointer on any of them (Windows or Linux) behaves 
> sometime in a crazy way. Not always. We still can use it. But sometime 
> it wonders out, to screen borders. Without fucken clear reason. This 
> makes me crazy. And my wife becomes crazy too. She threatens to divorce me.
> 
> Any idea? About the mouse, not my wife, I mean.
> 
> zb.

Zbigniew,

   Do you have a shiny table?  The new, optical mice seem to work better on tables with rough, patterned surfaces and on mouse pads. Perhaps your wife is polishing the table too much.  :)

   I have had problems with mice too.  My cordless Logitech mouse has been perfect, so far.

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