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?
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?
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? 
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.
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. 
