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Mighty Mouse causes machine to freeze
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Sep 6, 2005, 07:11 PM
 
I got a Mighty Mouse this weekend, and really kinda liked it!
thoug it has some issues i don't like.. like you can't press the right button without lifting your finger off the left button. kinda akward.


But there's another thing aswell.

After I started using the mighty mouse, i've had several freezes on my powerbook.

The mouse buttons freeze for no obvious reason.
I can still move the mouse around the screen, but no matter how many times i press the buttons, nothing happends. That goes for the USB mouse, aswell as the trackpad on the powerbook.

After a reboot everything is back to normal for a while.. but it's so irritating i just put the mighty mouse away - went back to one-button.

I've installed the software that came with the mouse, and downloaded eveything i found in software update.

Anyone else experienced the same problem? What can be done?
Powerbook G4 15" 1.67GHz/2GB/100GB/Superdrive + 20" Cinema Display
40GB iPod Photo - 2 x LaCie D2 250GB
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Sep 6, 2005, 10:30 PM
 
Some people have reported this as well, and its happened to me a couple times - the cause is a bug in the driver. If you accidentally activate the side buttons while dragging something, the bug may show up.
My solution was to disable the side buttons (not a big deal for me since I really wouldn't use them anyway).
Hopefully a fix will be forthcoming from Apple.
     
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Sep 7, 2005, 07:25 AM
 
Thanks for the tip, i'll try that
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