Re: optical mouse

[Torbjorn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu>]

Onno Benschop <onno@itmaze.com.au> writes:

> 
> At 10:55 9/01/02 -0800, Alex Cavnar wrote:
> >I actually do have the special mouse pad that the mouse requires. My
> >problem is that the mouse does not even emit a laser beam when you boot
> >the system. I don't even know if it's supposed to do that, but I know
> >of no way to make it work.
> 
> IMHO, no light = dead (unless you are of a soldering iron bearing age and 
> you got your scouting electronics badge :-)
> --

Depends totally on the version of the mouse.... It is true for
old, kind of square ones, but on the newer, more round ones you
don't see any red dot..

//Tobbe
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