[iBook] wireless mouse waking up iBook from sleep

[Matthew Faulds]

Hi

I've TheMouseBT and I find that it sometimes wakes my iBook from sleep. It's 
a weird problem because it occurs about 10% of the time and doesn't happen 
every time in the same login.

I've tried to identify the culprit but all I've found to solve the problem 
is the remove my bluetooth dongle or logout and in again. It's especially 
disconcerting when sometimes I close the lid and the ibook keeps waking up 
and going to sleep again despite the lid being closed (it does seem to give 
up eventally and stay asleep!)

I certainly don't get the same problem with my bluetooth keyboard...

BTW - any views on BT mouse out there? I'm quite disappointed with the 
performance of my MacMice one. It's can be very erratic even on normal 
surfaces and new batteries. It's main erratic behaviour is to trigger extra 
mouse buttons that it shouldn't have and I end up with exposé jumping around 
the window in front of me!

Matt



----Original Message Follows----
From: Benjamin Kennedy <bjkennedy at mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [iBook] wireless mouse waking up iBook from sleep
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:27:13 +0900

Johan,

Have you tested to see if the problem persists with a wired mouse? On my 600 
mhz iBook, having any mouse at all plugged in will cause the machine to wake 
from sleep periodically (without me touching the mouse of course). I've 
never found anyone else with this problem, so I just unplug the mouse when I 
want the computer to sleep. I've only used Logitech mice, and they claim 
never to have heard of this problem and offered no solution. Apple, of 
course, blamed Logitech.

Ben



On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Luypaert, Johan (Johan) wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I started using a microsoft wireless optical mouse with my iBook. But it 
>seems that from time to time the iBook is waking up from sleep since I 
>connected the mouse. And in fact when I just move the mouse the iBook wakes 
>up from sleep, which is good. (usb devices can wake up the iBook.) The 
>problem is that sometimes the iBook wakes from sleep while I'm not moving 
>the mouse. So I guess the mouse is sending a signal to the base station 
>which is waking up the iBook. Does anybody have a solution for this? For 
>the moment I'm removing one battery every time I used the mouse ...
>
>Any ideas? (Or do you recommend a three button bluetooth mouse?)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Johan.
>
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