logitech trackman marble usb mouse not hot swappable?

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logitech trackman marble usb mouse not hot swappable?

Hot swaping works fine with other mice (Kensignton expert mouse trackball, etc).

With Logitech trackman marble t-BC21, when you unplug in and plug it back in, 90% of the time it locks the Mac, needing to reboot by holding down the on/off button.

Any ideas? I need it to be hot swappable to work with a KVMP switch.

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bob

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Unibody MacBook Pro 2.53GHz,4GB Ram, OS X, iPhone 3G, Parallels 4

Posted on Sep 25, 2009 9:29 AM

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Sep 25, 2009 10:29 AM in response to BobInIndy1

Have you spoken to Logitech? It's their product.

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Sep 25, 2009 2:40 PM in response to sig

Yes, of course. They said you had to uninstall all other mice, pen tablets, etc. I thought that was absurd, since I assumed that mac was designed better than that. However, they were correct. Multiple mouse drivers (even it you only use one mouse at a time) step on each other. I removed others, it works fine now. Sounds a lot like windows to me.

Thanks for your help.
bob

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Sep 25, 2009 3:28 PM in response to BobInIndy1

Are you using a driver from Logitech? I have the same Marble Mouse, but used with 'USB Overdrive'; also a Microsoft Mouse with the MS driver, and a Wacom tablet; all co-exist happily and can be hotplugged. The MS driver only affects the mouse, over-riding USB Overdrive (which is set up lef-handed while the mouse is right-handed). Possibly it's the Logitech driver which is acting up?

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