Wild Mouse

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

François Patte wrote:
> John Wendel a écrit :
>> On bottom, it says Logitech optical mouse, it's not a laser, just a red
>> led, connected to the PS/2 mouse port through an adapter. NO KVM involved.
> 
> Yes, led! not laser of course! I had some problems like this, until I
> put my mouse on a sheet of paper... I think that if the mouse is on a
> too much reflective place, then it has a weird behaviour.
> 
It is more a matter of the contrast the reflexion. It has to sense
changes in reflected light to determine motion. I have a very
reflective mouse pad left from an early optical mouse that has nice
grid lines on it - it works great! (The original mouse would only
work on the special pad.)

Mikkel
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