[TriLUG] Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse

Tomm Lorenzin tomm at 1000plus.com
Sun May 30 13:31:27 EDT 2004


The M$ wireless optical mouse has issues with KVM-type switches (SwitchView,
et al.).  My wife's W/O mouse won't work thru HER KVM switch, and she's
using friggin' Windoze on both machines. <hah!>  We used to have issue at M$
(yes, I worked there.  No, I don't regret seven-of-nine <years, that is
<G>>), too.  Mouse would hang in one machine or another, and we originally
thought that the only fix was to re-boot all machines.  Then I discovered
that merely cycling the switch thru all connected machines would resuscitate
the mousie where comatose.

M$ claimed no liability for compatibility with such switches.  "Beyond
support boundaries." It surprises me not-at-all to hear of such problems
regardless of OS.

Cheers! 7;^)
Tomm "laughing boy" Lorenzin
Mooresville (Lake Norman), NC

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Turnpike Man
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 11:49
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 


I'm not sure this may change things, but have you tried it directly on your
box instead of through the KVM??  I've got a M$ optical wireless and it has
run fine with RH 9, FC1, MDK 9.x etc. all directly connected to the box, no
KVM involved.  I've never tried gentoo but can't imagine it wouldn't work.

good luck,
David M.

--- Peter Long <petelong at petelong.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I am in the process of trying to get my new Microsoft Wireless Optical 
> Mouse to work on Gentoo. I have had little luck searching google. I 
> saw a few comments out how seamlessly it worked for other people. So I 
> can only assume I am doing something stupid. Any tips would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Note I have it plugged into the PS/2 port on my KVM switch. Neither my 
> gentoo or the redhat 8.0 machine recognise the mouse. I read somewhere 
> that I need the mousedev module loaded. I tried that to no avail.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Peter Long
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