Hi, On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:19:33 -0900 John Andersen <.> wrote:
> > > > does this mouse require the rf dongle to be clipped under the mouse when > > not in use as it does on the Logitech i have that is almost a year old > > and still on the same pair of AA cles i installed when it was given to me > > last year i use it every day on my laptop running suse 10.2 and most > > evenings .. > > > > The point of the clipping that Peter mentions is that this > often turns off the mouse for travel. Other mice have switches. > > Since the OP has a laptop, I wonder if he dumps the mouse > in the bag with the computer only to have its buttons depressed > constantly while in the bag, wasting battery? > Thanks for all of your answers; there are plenty of things to check/ measure/etc! My mouse is an optical one as it was asked and has a little switch on its bottom side. It's always just turned ON, when it is in use, otherwise it's OFF! All the day the whole stuff is on my desk and if it would get temporally into a bag or something, the mouse would be anyway OFF. (+ the mouse travels in its original plastic wrap, where there is no way to push any buttons!) I have a three years old Acer TravelMate 803LMiB having Bluetooth as well. Maybe they really interfere with the mouse's dongle, later running at 27MHz as stated on its bottom side. This I will check first, because when patched my 2.6.5 kernel to use a BT headset, had serious quality problems and maybe that disturbing signals originally "came" from my mouse's hard- ware... In addition I would consider not to make any bug reports for the oldie Acer laptop, because nobody would care! It's _old_ and during the first week WinXP was erased from it, so was in fact never used "as it should be". Acer would even not think that anyone just keeping all the genuine M$ recovery-type media in the cupboard; far away from the production sys- tem. Pelibali:) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
