catgate Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I recently decided to cast off the shackles of Ludditism (temporarily) and went forth and bought a Labtec 800 wireless mouse.Has anyone had experience of one of these little beauties, or am I on my own?To describe it as touchy and temperamental is an understatement. The mouse is unwilling to connect to its transmitter without much repeated pressing of buttons and, even when a contact has been made, it is impossible to "tune" it to sensible and predictable movement by use of the mouse control panel settings.I find it difficult to believe that my wireless router can be interfering because one would expect Labtec to have taken this into account. Millions of computers have such a set up.Has anyone any thoughts on this please?Granted I am using Ubuntu, but the problem is not with the OS. I am using the same MB USB port as I use without problem for my normal "cooking" mouse, so I think the problem lies outside the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Unless things have changed since you last mentioned your operating system, do you still have Windows 98 installed. It may be possible that something as modern as your new rodent is not designed for this O/S. Just a thought. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Unless things have changed since you last mentioned your operating system, do you still have Windows 98 installed. It may be possible that something as modern as your new rodent is not designed for this O/S. Just a thought. :DGranted I am using Ubuntu, but the problem is not with the OS. I am using the same MB USB port as I use without problem for my normal "cooking" mouse, so I think the problem lies outside the box.I still have the box with W98 in it, but that is in the back bedroom slowly "maturing" and totally disconnected from the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 The problem may be in the price, £4.99. you cant expect it to work. If you go down this road again spend a bit more and get a Logitech or Microsoft, and Lazer is allot better than optical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Try this, go into the snyaptic package manager and install a program called btnx, see if that does the trick.If not I use this mouse http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook...84&cl=hk,en, this is compatable with any Linux distro with a 2.6 kernel or above.This is where i brought mine.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Wireless-...r/dp/B002APJTE6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Try this, go into the snyaptic package manager and install a program called btnx, see if that does the trick.Thanks for that Alan.I went looking for btnx, but it is not in the various repositories that I have "installed". After Googling and reading about btnx I came to the conclusion that all the farting about, and danger of sinking the ship, was not worth the effort just for the sake of throwing off the cloak of Ludditism. So I shall see what happens with it on my old Windows box next time I start it up. I have a PS2/USB adapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 I received a new mouse in the post this morning and it works as it should with the original tramsmitter.Another hurdle overcome.I have not yet fully got to grips with the two extra side buttons (for paging back and forwards) yet.Might have to "saw" them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 The are the best buttons on there, you'll miss them when you get used to them and go to a mouse without, it takes longer to go the right click way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Totally agree about ths side buttons. Mine has also got an extra buttion on the top which does double click, as well as the left, right and scroll wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Is it that crappy little one from Tesco? I can't remember the model name and stuff.If it is, I had a problem with that one much like this. You just have to press the blue receiver's button once so that it begins to flicker then the button on the mouse and it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Nope it's a wired one called Super Optical Mouse from Canyon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Sorry about that Doug. I was talking to Catgate about his wireless mouse he originally posted about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 >HB, grovelling accepted and pardon granted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Is it that crappy little one from Tesco? I can't remember the model name and stuff.If it is, I had a problem with that one much like this. You just have to press the blue receiver's button once so that it begins to flicker then the button on the mouse and it should work.No it is a normal sized one. I have awful troubles with those small ones, such as they seem to supply with laptops. I had my hand stamped on playing rugby over sixty year ago, and as a result the little finger on my right hand got severely smashed and the joint at the first joint above the knuckle had to be set. It was a case of set it bent or straight, and so it was set 45 degrees bent. Handy I suppose if one picked ones nose with the right little fingure at 45 degrees, but a right pain for other things.So even with a full sized mouse I have the odd problem.I had to take up the tin whistle instead of the recorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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