Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1325 mails)

[N B Day <nday@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:00 -0500, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Saturday May 2 2009, N B Day wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 12:39 -0500, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > On Saturday May 2 2009, Bob Rea wrote:
> > > > My mouse is losing it's grip, especially in solitaire, but
> > > > other places too. Is this more likely to be the mouse or a
> > > > driver problem?
> > >
> > > If it's slowly changing, it's probably the hardware.
> >
> > Why not try a live CD, e.g. Knoppix or one of the dozens of others?
> > This is a great way to start to sort out whether a suspected failure
> > is hardware related.   http://livecdlist.com
>
> How is that? How do you know it's not the same driver software that's 
> included with whatever version of openSUSE he's running?

> Randall Schulz
Well, (1) the OP's problem is overwhelmingly likely to be a dirty mouse.
(2) it used to work with his installed OS, and now it does not, so he
could have suffered some sort of failure of his hard disk which caused
the mouse stuff not to load properly, or he's installed something else
which interferes with the mouse.  A new OS from a CD would certainly
eliminate that (remote) possibility.  It's quick and easy.

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