Comment 69 for bug 119194

Hi Thomas,

I also noticed the same thing. As I got tired of the optical mouse's erratic actions I fired up the ol' Cordless MouseMan Wheel. It works perfectly - for a ball'd mouse.

But this is not the whole story. I'm a dual booter... yes, it's the games, and noticed that the optical mouse would shut itself off from time to time in Windows also! With an exception that Windows didn't recover as good as Kubuntu did. I had to disconnect the cable and put it back in, with a prey it worked for a while but not always. I tried searching the cable for a magic spot with some serious twisting sessions but ended up with frustration. It was the cord, I knew it, but I had nothing to prove it as to where the faulty spot was.

In conclusion, I'm now using ball mouse but will buy an optical one in the near future. I'm however confident that my problem was inside the mouse's cable, although I could not replicate the incident in a more sophisticated manner.