[Novalug] mouse madness

[jlg]

Sheesh, I am showing my age...  I thought lint was cruft in C programs....
...jlg

donjr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:32 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> for the last day or so my mouse pointer jumps at random times down to
> the lower left corner of the screen.
> 
> it is an optical mouse.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> i can have it right in the middle of a application and it will jump
> down.

Look for LINT or other dirt covering the light source on the base of the
mouse.

I had a problem something like that
   {other times the mouse would just stop responding}
and that seems to of been the problem.

--  
-- 
 Don E. Groves, Jr. 

$ /usr/games/fortune : 
You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely
larger than others.
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