Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:04:11 -0500 | From | Scott Robert Ladd <> | Subject | Of Mice and Linux |
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Please indulge a minor story in regard to testing beta kernels.
Last Friday, I made a minor change to my Linux .config and rebuilt 2.6.0-test11. Soon thereafter, my mouse began getting "stuck", sometimes for several seconds, refusing to move no matter how vigorously I wiggled my wrist.
I rebuilt the kernel a couple of times, turning on and off various options; I plugged and unplugged devices from the USB ports; a considerable amount of cursing ensued. The problem was erratic -- and frustrating, because I hadn't had much trouble with 2.6 (which I've been using since the 2.6.4x days).
Then I borrowed a mouse from another machine, plugged it in -- and the replacement rodent worked flawlessly. It seems that my mouse broke just about the same time as I installed test11. Being a software guy, I should have blamed the hardware first...
...especially since the truth was right in front of me, emblazoned boldly across the mouse: the word "Microsoft".
I think the replacement will be from Logitech.
-- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing
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