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Using Debian squeeze on Farnell SD card.

 

Everthing started up; went through the initialisation sequence.

Ran 'startx' and jumped into the GUI.

However the mouse will only go up and down the middle; no left or right. Any ideas?

  • Can you try another mouse, just to be on the safe side?

     

    Try downloading another copy of Debian, reload, and try again.

     

    It works for me.

     

    Cabe

  • in reply to Catwell

    Many Thanks.

     

    After writing I carried on searching and lack of power was mentioned a lot.

    Borrowed a laser mouse and everything works. The roller ball mouse must have hit the limit.

    I have now got a list of searches which cover most things for a newbie to Linux.

    Thanks

  • in reply to Former Member

    Peter,

     

    If I knew it was a roller ball mouse, I would have said use an optical. I believe roller ball mice have gone the way of the pager.

     

    Good luck.

     

    Cabe

  • in reply to Former Member

    Peter Paul Fox wrote:

     

    The roller ball mouse must have hit the limit.

    You found a roller ball mouse that works with USB?  Wow, I'm impressed.

     

    So here's what you do.  Take the ball out and scrape the accumulated packed lint off the spindles with a small screwdriver.  That stuff keeps the roller from turning the spindles.  If that doesn't work, take the mouse apart and blow the accumulated lint out of the encoder wheels and optical sensors.  (I assume your roller mouse has optical sensors  and not contact switches like an Alto mouse.)

     

    There's absolutely no reason you can't keep a roller mouse running forever -- isn't that the point of solid state technology?  image  The longer you can keep a cheap item running the more geek points you accumulate.

     

    But most important: always carry a dead mouse by its tail.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    Because of the forum date sorting bug, this newly updated thread unfortunately appears on page 20 of the threads listing for me. :-(

     

    There's something special about page 20 in the sorting --- the sorting starts afresh from age zero here, despite preceding threads being 5 months old.  So, if you ever find a thread missing, head  over in this direction first. image