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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Optical Mouse Question
Summary: Try rotating the pad by 90 degrees
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Date: 24 Feb 90 09:32:42 GMT
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In article <2201@ultb.isc.rit.edu> dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson ) writes:
>I have the Boing Optical mouse, and it hasn't worked since I got it (It
>works fine vertically, but is sluggish or jitters Horizontally)  

Does your mouse work better or worse when the mouse pad is rotated 90 degrees?
The optical mouse uses a red LED and sensor for one direction and an
infrared LED and sensor for the other direction.  The grid pattern on the
mouse pad is not the same vertically as it is horizontally.  If the
mouse pad is not oriented properly (or is missing the pattern that the
infrared sensor is looking for), the mouse pointer will stop working in
one direction (but works fine in the other direction).
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