Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Robert Smits wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote: > >> Yikes. couple days? >> Throw that thing away and get a Logitech wireless optical. >> My wife got one for christmas and she till has not replaced >> the batteries. She uses it for a couple hours every day and >> can't

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:21, Robert Lewis wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > >>> pelibali wrote: > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAA

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-14 Thread pelibali
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

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-14 Thread Russell Jones
Doug McGarrett wrote: temporarily set up Linux on your brother's laptop (the same version you use) and then test, you could determine. if it's hardware or Linux. If it turns out to be hardware, you should alert the manufacturers of your machine and its video card. (And the mouse!) They will ce

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-14 Thread Adam Williams
> > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a > > wired version on my son's notebook PC. The battery in the wireless >

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread JB2
On 13 March 07 20:41, John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > > > pelibali wrote: > > > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longe

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote: > Yikes. couple days? > Throw that thing away and get a Logitech wireless optical. > My wife got one for christmas and she till has not replaced > the batteries. She uses it for a couple hours every day and > can't be bothered to shut it off.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Lewis
John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: >> >>> pelibali wrote: >>> batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > > pelibali wrote: > > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > > > I am using a Logi

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: > pelibali wrote: > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs > > I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a > wired

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:41, Dave Howorth wrote: > pelibali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using recharge

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:25, pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and th

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. N

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread peter nikolic
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they las

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Damon Register
pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a wired version on my son's notebook PC. The battery in the wireless seem

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Dave Howorth
pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to > my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type > batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable > 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
pelibali wrote: > In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side > where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on > the another, left side. Could that 15cm->40cm (~3x) make such decre- > ase in the battery life(s)? > Also one other thought. Are your laptop

[opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread pelibali
Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
pelibali wrote: > In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side > where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on > the another, left side. Could that 15cm->40cm (~3x) make such decre- > ase in the battery life(s)? > That is the only thing that makes sense.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-13 at 14:25 +0100, pelibali wrote: > but maybe > the mouse background is also an important point. e.g. I use a pretty > white and almost flat plate now, where sometimes I see my pointer > shaking, without even touching the mouse.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread jdd
pelibali wrote: 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work. The system is SUSE 9.1... my daughter stopped using such mice for that reason (and always on windows :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.sh