Re: [Cooker] Erratic Intellimouse Optical Behavior
Scott, you didn't mention whether you were using PS/2 or USB. For what it's worth, my Intellimouse Optical works flawlessly. But (1) it's a different mouse (your subject line says Intellimouse Optical but your message said Intellimouse Explorer. What's the difference? About $20. And the Intellimouse Optical is symetrical, i.e. it works right handed or left handed equally well, whereas the Intellimouse Explorer is sculpted asymetrically IIRC), and (2) I'm using XFree86 3.3.6. Also, I do use it on the USB port.
Re: [Cooker] Erratic Intellimouse Optical Behavior
sorry... Realized that a couple days ago after I intially sent the message, just never got around to writing a response. LOL It's running off of the PS/2 port, is the Intellimouse Explorer (the more expensive one), and I'm running X 4.0... If you think it might possibly work better on the USB port for whatever reason, I can switch it over at my next reboot Saturday night. Thanks for the insight! --Scott On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Guy T. Rice wrote: Scott, you didn't mention whether you were using PS/2 or USB. For what it's worth, my Intellimouse Optical works flawlessly. But (1) it's a different mouse (your subject line says Intellimouse Optical but your message said Intellimouse Explorer. What's the difference? About $20. And the Intellimouse Optical is symetrical, i.e. it works right handed or left handed equally well, whereas the Intellimouse Explorer is sculpted asymetrically IIRC), and (2) I'm using XFree86 3.3.6. Also, I do use it on the USB port.
[Cooker] Erratic Intellimouse Optical Behavior
Good morning everyone (at least for me), I have lived with this problem for a little while, and now I've finally fed up. First off, I do not believe this problem ever came up for me in 7.0... I have an Intellimouse Explorer (the optical kind with all the whizzo side-buttons and everything... oh BTW, anyone know how to keymap those buttons in Nutscrape and elsewhere for back and forward, like they were in the 'doze world?). It runs great, wheel runs great, and all life is happy. But there are numerous times per day that while I'm working in X (X 4.0, if it makes a difference) that the system seems to lose track of where the mouse is tracking to. It locks the mouse and refuses to move the pointer UNTIL I switch out to a non-X virtual terminal (good time to check the logs on console 12 for anyone deciding to reverse ICMP me to death), and then back into X. The mouse resets itself, and life returns to normal for a few minutes, until I have to do it again. This can get fairly annoying a lot of times, as there is usually a 3 second or so delay between me hitting Ctrl-Alt-F12 and it actually switching to that console. And there have been numerous times where I've been working in Gnome, listening to XMMS, etc etc etc and generally raising heck on my machine that when it switches consoles, the system freezes hard, requiring a reset-button push. Here's the details of my system, just in case: Hydrogen Beta 1 2.2.15 (yeah I know... I have the release discs next to me. Just too lazy... :D) X-4.0 with the nvidia drivers 192 megs of RAM, K6-2-300 Gnome 1.2 from Helix MS Intellimouse Explorer (optical) imwheel loaded kudzu loaded (long explanation, but the mouse seems to "power up" when this loads during the bootsequence) Thanks for the ideas. And if anyone knows those button-bindings for those side butttons, I'd be really thankful. :D --Scott Balmos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Cooker] Erratic Intellimouse Optical Behavior
I'm suprised you even use the thing. I spent the good part of a week trying to troubleshoot a clients computer that was under waranty. Those mice are a mennace. I ended up replaceing the motherboard but I know that it was running properly before he used that mouse on it. I know it sounds crazy but allot of his friends have them and they all use that thing as ps/2 instead of usb. As a usb divece under windows it does real strange things. Scott Balmos wrote: Good morning everyone (at least for me), I have lived with this problem for a little while, and now I've finally fed up. First off, I do not believe this problem ever came up for me in 7.0... I have an Intellimouse Explorer (the optical kind with all the whizzo side-buttons and everything... oh BTW, anyone know how to keymap those buttons in Nutscrape and elsewhere for back and forward, like they were in the 'doze world?). It runs great, wheel runs great, and all life is happy. But there are numerous times per day that while I'm working in X (X 4.0, if it makes a difference) that the system seems to lose track of where the mouse is tracking to. It locks the mouse and refuses to move the pointer UNTIL I switch out to a non-X virtual terminal (good time to check the logs on console 12 for anyone deciding to reverse ICMP me to death), and then back into X. The mouse resets itself, and life returns to normal for a few minutes, until I have to do it again. This can get fairly annoying a lot of times, as there is usually a 3 second or so delay between me hitting Ctrl-Alt-F12 and it actually switching to that console. And there have been numerous times where I've been working in Gnome, listening to XMMS, etc etc etc and generally raising heck on my machine that when it switches consoles, the system freezes hard, requiring a reset-button push. Here's the details of my system, just in case: Hydrogen Beta 1 2.2.15 (yeah I know... I have the release discs next to me. Just too lazy... :D) X-4.0 with the nvidia drivers 192 megs of RAM, K6-2-300 Gnome 1.2 from Helix MS Intellimouse Explorer (optical) imwheel loaded kudzu loaded (long explanation, but the mouse seems to "power up" when this loads during the bootsequence) Thanks for the ideas. And if anyone knows those button-bindings for those side butttons, I'd be really thankful. :D --Scott Balmos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
