What a generous offer! And a great price! I live in Corvallis. The drive to and from Eugene would be more expensive than just buying a mouse. OTOH you have a proven good one.
I plan to go to the IT-PRO meeting on April 21. Will you be there? I could bring my lappy and mice. We could try yours out and see. I just wish it wasn't such a long time from now. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > I have some spare USB mice if you want to swap out one for General > Purposes...found in the trash...but working fine on Ubuntu > 8.04...yours for the princely sum of $0 > > Brian > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Allen Brown <abr...@peak.org> wrote: > >> Yes, the USB and the PS2 mice were and are both optical. >> The mouse pad is fabric on neoprene. It isn't glossy at all. >> So the fact that this is optical is almost certainly not the cause. >> -- >> Allen Brown >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown> >> >> > My 2 cents: >> > >> > I don't know anyone covered this yet, but just to make sure it's not >> > PEBKAC, I will operate on the assumption the mouse is optical. Is the >> > PS2 one you had optical? If not, check your mousing surface. Make sure >> > it's not too reflective , or just use a piece of white paper below the >> > mouse. Sometimes optical mice jump randomly on reflective surfaces... >> > >> > ~Andrew >> > >> > PS: For the record, I've never had a USB mouse NOT work in Linux >> > (Several 10's of mice). >> > >> > Allen Brown wrote: >> >>> Are you talking about using a USB mouse with a laptop that has a >> >>> touchpad or is this a desktop PC? >> >> >> >> Since my desktop is currently dead I am limping with a laptop. >> >> That's why I need to use the USB mouse. It doesn't accept PS2. >> >> And the touch pad is awkward compared to a mouse. >> >> >> >> The problem I've described also applied to the desktop when >> >> it was running. >> >> >> >>> My G7 Logitech is USB and works very well both with lappy and >> >>> desktop in Ubuntu.I could post X11of my PCs if you wish? >> >> >> >> This is a G5. Yes, please post. >> >> >> >>> Also wireless phones /microwaves can interfere with that area of >> >>> freq. >> >> >> >> I don't have a wireless phone. My roommie has a cell, but is >> >> currently at the coast. The microwave oven is not running. >> >> The WiFi router is about 15 feet away and running at partial power. >> >> I don't know how to turn off the WiFi in the lappy. (When I've >> >> tried in the past gnome immediately brought it back up.) >> >> >> >>> Shut off both and try then. >> >>> And if blue tooth disable blue tooth on cell and PDAs to test for >> >>> improvement.I know not much to work but with hope it helps. :-) >> >> >> >> I don't have anything powered that's bluetooth, unless the lappy >> >> is broadcasting into the aether without asking me. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
