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From: dennison@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Theodore Dennison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse problem
Summary: Me too.
Keywords: HIBERNATING RODENTS
Message-ID: <737@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 89 17:39:24 GMT
References: <0545.AA0545@caleb> <9082@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: dennison@rex.UUCP (Theodore Dennison)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <9082@watcgl.waterloo.edu> jasmith@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Smith) writes:
>In article <0545.AA0545@caleb> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>>Help,
>>      my B2000 mouse is having an intermittant problem.  The horizontal
>>movement intermittently fails.  I've tried cleaning the rollers, but this
>
>I have the exact same problem with my A500 mouse. Moves up and down fine,
>but every now and then the lateral freezes up. A bit more detail that I've
>noticed: it never freezes up while the mouse is actually moving, only after
>its been stationary for a while. Jerking it sharply sideways always clears it
>up, but it IS an annoying problem.
>
 Well, just to round out the merry group, my A1000 mouse does the same thing.
 Has since I got it. My current pet theory is that it is not the mouse but
 the mouse surface that is the problem, but this is just a theory.

T.E.D.