On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > >>> I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > >>> the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > >>> mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It > >>> is irregular. Has anyone noticed this behavior? I upgraded stable about > >>> 2 days after it was declared and have continued to keep it upgraded. > >>> There are no other apps from other distros of Debian. I do have some > >>> roll my owns and a couple of installations using checkinstall, but > >>> nothing involving the mouse or xorg. Any ideas? This mouse has been > >>> working fine for a couple of years, & is a Logictech USB 3-button > >>> w/scroll wheel. Mod. # M-BT85. Optic mouse. This is not a disaster but > >>> is annoying. > >> Does the mouse work in another computer? Do other mice exhibit the same > >> symptoms? > >> > >>> Please CC; me as gmail tosses a lot of replies. > >> Done, > >> Andrei > > Thanks: Andrei, Lisi, Matthew; > > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... The optical mouse was > > trying to work on a plain gray featureless desktop. Back on the pad & no > > probs. > > Same thing happens to me on a grey mouse pad with dirty black splotches. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > "Freedom is not a license for anarchy." >
Now that is what I call a very interesting coincidence....Grey huh!!! I will do some experiments using different shades of gray :-) -- John Foster
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