[techtalk] dead mouse

[Julie]

David Merrill wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My mouse suddenly died on me. Occasionally I can get it to move, but
> then it moves jerkily and coasts to the side of the screen. All 3
> buttons still work. I've tried two other meeces which both do the same
> thing, which afaics rules out the mouse itself.
> 
> I haven't done anything at all with any conf files.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be wrong, or how I
> might go about debugging this?

Were I a betting woman (which I am ...) I'd guess that the
mouse plug or something hardware inside the box is busted.

Mice have two direction sensors -- one X and another Y and
those thingies, when they break, give you movement on one
axis only.  My recollection is that the X and Y signals are
on two different wires, so since the problem is mouse
idependent, my guess would be that the problem is on the
other side of the mouse/computer interface ...

-- Julie (US Patent #5,963,195)

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