At 10:00 PM -0700 3/28/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Dan wrote:
some brands of Pee-Sea mice (USB) will work fine for a few
seconds, then freeze the computer so severely that the only way to
get things working again is to force restart
Sounds like a driver issue. Many vendors provide awful software
for their peripherals. It could also be a problem with dueling
drivers. Check your system.log for error messages.
I have never, ever had to install a driver for any PC OEM mouse, and
they have always worked perfectly, out of the box.
Well, yes, most mice should work "out of the box". But the driver
software is needed to get the better speeds and enable functionality
of the other buttons and controls on the mouse, beyond the two
buttons and one scroll wheel.
As time goes by, people install things then forget. Kensington's
MouseWorks and Logitech's LCC, for example, conflict nicely -
resulting in mouse freezes and even kernel panics. Some version
combinations are worse than others. And that's before adding SIMBL
to the mix.
- Dan.
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