Aug 17 2006
My Girlfriend’s a Geek part 5
Nancy’s been at it again. From her blog:
The mouse that scrolled…: “
Roar is not quite it… it really is the mouse that scrolled.
As long as I can remember, I have been a trackball user. I like my trackball. I try other mice but always seem to gravitate back to using the trackball. I have a wireless Logitech trackball that I really like, but for some reason, the scrolling wasn’t working. For this reason, I had sadly tucked it away and used my wired trackball - also by Logitech.
While rummaging in the office yesterday, I re-discovered my cordless trackball and thought I’d give it another go. I downloaded the special ‘Logitech Command Center’ (LCC) for OS X and tried tweaking the trackball settings. Everything seemed to work - except for scrolling!
At first I thought it was something to do with OS X, but the click part of the wheel worked fine, and the LCC was recognizing that it did, in fact, have a scroll wheel. I took it apart and cleaned the wheel, the spokes, etc. - still nothing. UGH. I took my corded trackball apart and had a look inside, it looked pretty much the same, and scrolling worked on that one… so… I came up with a brilliant plan.
Looks like it’s time to take it apart…
Read the rest on Nancy’s blog.