[X4U] Apple's "Mighty Mouse" - Am I the only one seeing problems?

[Simon Forster]

On 16 Sep 2005, at 02:55, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 8:32 AM +0100 9/15/05, Simon Forster wrote:
>
>> On 15 Sep 2005, at 04:00, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting, this sounds a lot like what my wife told me about on  
>>> the phone yesterday.  I'm using an IBM optical 3-button USB mouse  
>>> (rebranded Logitech I believe), with the middle button also being  
>>> a scroll wheel.  The computer wouldn't take *any* mouse input.   
>>> This is under 10.3.9 on a G5 2x2, and I've never seen anything  
>>> like this.  I told her to reboot, and after she did, the system  
>>> was fine.  The keyboard (an Apple Extended II ADB keyboard  
>>> plugged into ADB-to-USB converter) was still working.
>>
>> Same symptoms, different mouse and OS. Not the data points I wanted!
>
> Oh, it gets stranger, last night, I was using X-Windows, and the  
> middle mouse conked out.  Plus somehow my xterms were getting  
> dragged around popping to different parts of the screen.  The  
> dragging/popping part stopped when I quit out of X-Windows and  
> restarted it, but I still couldn't use the middle button.   
> Restarting the computer fixed it.  I found it really disturbing.

So we can agree that Apple's OS (10.3.9 in your case, 10.4.3 in mine)  
is mouse sensitive ;-)

I've have no problems with Apple's (standard) mouse and I have a  
Logitech "Premium Optical Wheel Mouse" which works fine too. However,  
Apple's "Mighty Mouse" has been consigned to a drawer because my  
machine is just too unstable when using it.

OK. To be more precise, the UI becomes too unstable. The underlying  
OS appears to be fine.

Simon Forster
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