Loss of vertical mouse movement in suntools/sunview

[barry klawans]

In article <1027 at brazos.Rice.edu> karim at uncecs.edu (Omar A. Karim) writes:
>The SUN 4/110 which I have has recently developed a marked loss of mouse
>control in the vertical direction.
>
>Any help will be appreciated... moving the mouse around in large circles
>on the pad doesnt help.

I just saw a system exhibit almost identical symptoms a few days ago.
(Actually it was losing mouse control in the horizontal direction.)  Does
it look like the mouse is not responding very quick?  If so you probably
have a bad mouse.  I would guess that either the photo-receptor is dirty
or the optics tracking vertical motion are out of alignment.  Try moving
the mouse slowly up and down at a constent speed.  If the cursor starts
and stops and moves up and down in jerks try swapping mice with another
sun and see if the problem goes away.  It did at our site.

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