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My parents have a 400MHz Graphite iMac, and recently their puck mouse gave out on them. Dad bought a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical, one of those white-and-grey chimmerjigs.

Anyways, it doesn't work on the keyboard USB ports. Plugging it into the side port will let the mouse "light-up" fine and be ready to go, but neither side of the keyboard will work. Furthermore, the new Apple clear mice seem to be fine with those ports.

Anyone know of a possible problem? I don't know anything about Microsoft mice, and haven't had any problems with the Razor Boomslang I have....

greg

[Peter]

okay...what OS are you running? I had slight problems whilst installing that mouse on my iBook, here is what I did. Rebooted in OS9 loaded the software, restarted on the reboot the light shined and then installed the OSX software, it worked. If I only installed the OSX software and no OS9 software nout happened. If that doesn't work try going to versiontracker and downloading the recent driver update to that mouse.

[tr]

in X, just plugging it should be fine. my mom got my sister's old iMac DV SE 400. she didn't like the puck, so i let her borrow my intellimouse explorer to see if she liked it. plugged it into the keyboard in X, and worked fine. didn't have to install 9 drivers first. didn't even install X drivers. the only thing that didn't work were the side buttons (that's where the MS drivers come in), but i didn't bother installing them, as this was just temporary.

have you restarted the computer with the MS mouse plugged in?


tr