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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS windows and logitech mice
Message-ID: <25431@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 17:07:37 GMT
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In article <11424@well.UUCP> brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard) writes:
|In article <25310@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.amd.com () writes:
|>However, my Logitech serial mouse only works for a short time and then
|>the machine seems to become deaf to the mouse. 
|
|I have the same problem with my Logitech mouse.  I have the feeling that
|Windows' driver for the Logitech is faulty, or that there is a problem with
|Logitech's mouse driver.  When this happens, I exit Windows, execute MOUSE,
|and return to Windows.  The mouse is re-enabled at this point.

Yeah, I don't consider this an acceptable mode of operation. To make a
long story short, I tried to talk to the tech support department of
all three of the companies involved, Microsoft, Orchid, and Logitech.
Microsoft was easily available and disclaimed any responsibility after
I told them Windows worked with the MS VGA driver but not the custom
Orchid 1024x768 driver. Orchid had to look up something and told me
that I needed a new mouse driver from Logitech. Logitech's bulletin
board didn't seem to have anything applicable. I tried to call their
tech support line and it was always busy. So I gave up and got a
Microsoft mouse.

IT WORKS!

Down with Logitech's products and their lack of support!
(how hard can it be to do a mouse driver? what a pack of fools!)

Now I'm writing a nasty letter to the president of Logitech.

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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
"In California, the reward for saving water is a lower quota."