mouse crazy

[John McGregor]

Zbigniew Koziol 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.
>
You can get this behaviour with optical / laser mice when they are used 
highly reflective surfaces like marble, formica (plastic laminate), 
stainless steel, etc. When I was at Ryerson, the computer lab tables 
were covered with shiny, black formica and I used to take a sheet of 
construction paper with me to use as a mousing surface so as to 
eliminate the erratic cursor.

HTH

John
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