Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!sunshine!barnick From: barnick@sunshine.Kodak.COM (William M Barnick x73638) Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: a better mouse for SparcStation Message-ID: <1991Feb6.140042.5453@kodak.kodak.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 14:00:42 GMT References: Sender: news@kodak.kodak.com Distribution: alt.sys.sun Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester NY Lines: 17 In article lakin@csli.stanford.edu (Fred Lakin) writes: >I am plagued by the occasional horizontal jerkiness problem. I understood >that Sun would just send a replacement, but this seems not to be the case. >In the meantime, is there any fix? Like taking it apart and adjusting >something, or is it a chip problem? > The technical explanation I got when two of our mice went bad was that there are two transmitting LEDs in the mouse. One is visible, the other is IR (non-visible). One of these LEDs is loosing transmitting power over time and causes the problems you described. I suppose you could try fixing it yourself if you knew which LED to replace and what the replacement LED is suppose to be. I simply returned mine to our local sales rep. See Ya ... WMB