John, On Thursday 31 July 2008 10:03:25 John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Clive Rogers
wrote: I have also now remembered that on my laptop running XP Home/Kubuntu dual boot system my mouse pointer would jump to one of the corners every now and then. This would happen when you least expect it. With my wired mouse it would not happen. So this is 2 PC's that have a weird problem.
The jumping is something I have seen before with early optical mice. But it was mostly an optical problem, not a radio one. Wood grain desktops seem to induce it a lot, printed pages too. A blank sheet of white paper seems to be the best for these older mice.
Yes I use a blank mouse mat now and have done for a while on my SuSE PC. The laptop I did not think to get a blank mouse mat for it but will asap.
I also remember some interrupt problems which occasionally hurt all USB mice, but that was back in the Suse 8.0 days IIRC.
As to the router, yes, I think it could be a problem for your wireless mouse, as could your wireless telephone (not cell phone) and anything else that shares that bandwidth. You can try setting the router to a different channel or lie to it and tell it you are in India or Japan or somewhere that has different band allocations.
Thanks for that idea. I will try changing the country and see if that stops the interference.
In the end, you wanted a new keyboard anyway...
My old keyboard is like your favourite pillow. Got to have that comfort zone so to speak. I have tried a new keyboard and its not the same feel or touch. Now back on my old keyboard having found for the time being some form of solution to the so called lockups. -- Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:29ºN 01:27:46ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org