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Freezing mice on RT while using idraw

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 12 01:04:42 1991

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 01:04:04 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 11 Mar 91 08:30:49 -0500 <9103111330.AA05041@salamander.MIT.EDU>


This sounds like a hardware problem.  Possibly a loose mouse
connection, or a flakey mouse card, or even static building up and
shocking the mouse.  The RT mice are very finicky.

I doubt very much that this is caused by idraw.

 Jonathan Kamens
 Project Athena Quality Assurance

Reference:

   From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
   Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 08:30:49 -0500


   Twice tonight, after using idraw for a *LONG* time, the mouse suddenly
   froze.  Button presses did nothing, and neither did moving it around.
   Everything else (screen, keyboard, whatever) was ok.

   This is on a PC/RT.

   I lost a lot the second time, because I was in the middle of a
   mouseful operation (drawing a polygon), and couldn't get out of it to
   save my file.  Has anyone else experienced these freezes?  I don't
   know if they're due to idraw or not for sure.

   :-(

	   -ken


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