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From: giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Near-sighted Mice??
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 323, message 14

Here's a strange problem:

Two SLC mice just semi-crapped out on me!  In Sunview (under 4.1) the
pointer move terrific vertically, but won't move horizontally.  However,
if you *press down* on the mouse, you can move the pointer normally!

My only guess is that the LED 'focus' (i.e. the distance from LED to the
mouse pad) has changed ever so slighlty, and that pressing down on the
mouse -- in effect moving the LED a little closer to the mouse pad --
corrects the 'focus'

Any ideas/fixes?
Jeff