MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[Andre Costa]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:54:58 +1030
Mark Limburg <mlimburg at users.on.net> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:38, Andre Costa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a
> > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains
> > responsive(keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides
> > killing X11 with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some
> > work. Restarting X brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had
> > happened.
> > 
> > Mouse is MS IntelliMouse Wheel Optical, graphics board is a GeForce4
> > Ti4200, XFree is latest version (4.3.0-55), NVidia drivers are also
> > latest (5336).
> 
> Whilst I can't help as such, I have one of these mice and it's sweet
> as.  Mind you, I have mine setup via USB rather than PS/2 .. how is
> yours plugged in?
> 
> This info may help the techno-boffins here :)

Hi Mark,

of course you're right, sorry for the oversight. I am using it plugged
in the PS/2 port.

Best,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa