Subject: mouse problems -- bronze PB
From: Harold Bolton (bolton@asl.cr.usgs.gov)
Date: Tue Aug 24 1999 - 11:16:33 MDT
Over the weekend I installed CS 1.1 (from CD) on my new powerbook (400Mhz
128RAM). Apart from pdisk (in the installer) complaining about not being able t
o
write the partition the install worked just fine. (After I partitioned with
pdisk I had to use the ol' command-option-power reboot because the packages
wouldn't install in the supposedly new partition. After the ugly reboot, the ne
w
partitions were there and everything else installed just fine.)
My problem is with the mouse. During install, I said I was using the internal
ADB mouse (I guess that's the right one. Apple provided NO spec sheets at all
with this powerbook.) I also followed the install notes provided by YDL and
added the kernel arguments adb_buttons=1,103,111.
What I get almost works! The mouse button acts like the left button. F11 acts
like the right button (sometimes) and F12 puts a little 'tilde' on the active
terminal window. No sign of the 2nd mouse button, so no pasting has been
possible.
The biggest problem, however, is that I often get very long freezes. The
behavior is quite consistent with what might appear if the 1st mouse button wer
e
to remain depressed. ie -- moving the cursor around I USUALLY am able to make
other windows active (that's my setting) but left clicking does NOTHING. This
happens over and over. Sometimes after 30 or 40 seconds functionality returns,
but I often have to resort to the horrible 3-button restart.
Any clues?
cheers,
-harold
Harold Bolton
Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
U.S. Geological Survey
Building 10002, Kirtland AFB-East
Albuquerque, NM 87115-5000
Phone: (505) 846-5646 (x3032 to use voice mail)
FAX: (505) 846-6973
E-mail: bolton@asl.cr.usgs.gov
Web page: http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/
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