mouse crazy

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 7 20:03:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:31:10PM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> 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.

Also sometimes a piece of dust or hair can get in where the sensor is
and make the mouse behave in interesting ways.  Just blowing at it gently
usually solves that.

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