Kevenly
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Q: Major mouse issues in Lion

After installing Lion, I'm having very bizarre mouse behavior.  Basically the cursor randomly shoots across the screen or disappears and re-appears in the corner.  It's a huge hassle.  I thought my mouse was going bad, but I boot into Windows and it's just fine, business as usual.


I found several threads on other forums with people describing the same issue after installing Lion, with all kinds of different mice.  So this is not unique to my system by any means.  Personally I use a Targus Bluetooth Mouse for Mac, as I have for three years.  It's a great mouse and I love it, as it has lots of buttons and a round touchpad area in the middle.  It works for scrolling all directions and has always worked like a charm.  However, with this mouse in Launchpad also when I try to side scroll, it only goes right.  I swipe the mouse's scroll conrol the the left, it scrolls right.  Any sideways scrolling just goes to the right. However it scrolls properly everywhere else (finder, iTunes, Safari, etc).

 

While that issue may be unique to this particular model of mouse, the wild flitting about of the cursor is again being widely reported in other forums, but I'm not seeing anything here about it.  One fellow at MacRumors said an Apple engineer has requested various logs about it and is working on the problem.  I hope that's true because this is pretty awful so far, making it very difficult to use the computer.

MBP 2.8 i7, Mac OS X (10.7), iPod Touch 2nd Gen

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 1:38 AM

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  • by highrollerslounge,

    highrollerslounge highrollerslounge Jan 12, 2012 11:07 AM in response to Kevenly
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    Jan 12, 2012 11:07 AM in response to Kevenly

    http://cl.ly/3qS0

     

    BOOM! fixed.

  • by oojacoboo,

    oojacoboo oojacoboo Jan 13, 2012 6:02 PM in response to highrollerslounge
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    Jan 13, 2012 6:02 PM in response to highrollerslounge

    what is this?  spyware?

  • by oefebe,

    oefebe oefebe Jan 19, 2012 8:21 AM in response to Kevenly
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    Jan 19, 2012 8:21 AM in response to Kevenly

    Guys check out this thread... it worked for me! Hope it helps!

     

    How to Fix Bluetooth Pairing in Mac OS X Lion Issues

  • by oojacoboo,

    oojacoboo oojacoboo Jan 19, 2012 9:41 AM in response to oefebe
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    Jan 19, 2012 9:41 AM in response to oefebe

    It's not a bluetooth issue.

  • by incredimike,

    incredimike incredimike Jan 19, 2012 9:47 AM in response to oojacoboo
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    Jan 19, 2012 9:47 AM in response to oojacoboo

    Not directly but it can affect Bluetooth. If this resolves some symptoms, then great!

  • by Paul Hookings,

    Paul Hookings Paul Hookings Jan 19, 2012 12:25 PM in response to incredimike
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    Jan 19, 2012 12:25 PM in response to incredimike

    I finally tried the Accell B087B-006B adapter that Chael Sonnen talked about on Dec.12, 2011 I have been using this for about a week now and NO mouse issues with both monitors running. It was $28 shipped from Amazon and well worth it for me. I had tried everything else and per his post I ordered this and what a difference for me at least.

  • by iseekell,

    iseekell iseekell Jan 21, 2012 6:37 AM in response to Kevenly
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    Jan 21, 2012 6:37 AM in response to Kevenly

    Tried suggestions about extra monitors (that is, tried with and without my external monitor). I tried with the USB dongle attached to every USB port on the MPB and peripherals, and integrated vs. discrete graphics cards. Nuttin'.

     

    Then I switched my mouse out from the wireless USB Performance MX back to an old wired USB generic MS mouse. Problem vanished instantly. I enjoy a usable, non-stuttering pointer a lot more than I miss the smoother action and extra buttons of the MX.

  • by Swiss Mann,

    Swiss Mann Swiss Mann Feb 5, 2012 3:50 PM in response to Kevenly
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    Feb 5, 2012 3:50 PM in response to Kevenly

    Are people still having the mouse issues in 10.7.3 or did it clear up for some?

  • by incredimike,

    incredimike incredimike Feb 5, 2012 6:43 PM in response to Swiss Mann
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    Feb 5, 2012 6:43 PM in response to Swiss Mann

    I have been waiting a bit to confirm, but since you're asking..

     

    Yes! The 10.7.3 patches did fix my problems.

     

    The related patch note:

     

     

    Address a graphics performance issue after sleep on some earlier iMacs that use ATI graphics

     

     

    I believe that describes my version of the problem (or at least a part of it). My issues are gone now and I hope it's the same resolve for others too.

  • by R.Simon,

    R.Simon R.Simon Feb 7, 2012 11:26 AM in response to Swiss Mann
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    Feb 7, 2012 11:26 AM in response to Swiss Mann

    10.7.3 did nothing to overcome the problems I have got with my mouse on a MacPro.

    I'm encountering

    - (often:) single clicks are interpreted as double-clicks (a huge pain)

    - (from time to time:) cursor jumps

    - (a bit more than just from time to time:) clicking isn't recognized at all

     

    if 10.7.4 does not come up with a fix, I'll bite the bullet and downgrade to Snow Leopard…

    (and yes, I did a lot to get over these issues btw)

  • by OnMac,

    OnMac OnMac Feb 16, 2012 8:10 PM in response to Kevenly
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    Feb 16, 2012 8:10 PM in response to Kevenly

    I have the annoying mouse acceleration / lag  / skipping issue with my MBP 2010 (15" i7).

     

    I used it until now mainly as a laptop with the laptop mouse pad. I recently added two DELL 23" LED Monitors and a Matrox DUalHead2GO DP edition (to extend my desktop across my laptop screen and both DELL monitors). I was using a Microsoft optical mouse and noticed wrist problems developing where it was never an issue previously. I also noticed fighting with the mouse cursor and having to constant make correction when performing work in each screen, bouncing between them. So I bought a new mouse (Logitech G500 on sale - No Mac Drivers) and the problem still existed though not as bad. After wasting many hours researching this problem, and testing the issue on my setup and I narrowed it down to iTunes.

     

    Yes iTunes, for me, is the culprit.

     

    I bought Decelerator from the App store and disabled mouse acceleration. I have my G500 configure to medium for DPI and I have set on the mouse firmware the usb polling to 125 (used a windows box to do that with logitech's setpoint software).

     

    Though the mouse acceleration *** on the Mac compared to windows since I started using OS X 10.1-10.7, it's now injury causing calibre.

     

    So until Apple fixes it, I cannot use iTunes when working on it while using an external mouse, connected to extended displays.

     

    Builds:

     

    MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2010

    Processor  2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

    Memory  8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

    Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

    Software  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50)

  • by oojacoboo,

    oojacoboo oojacoboo Feb 16, 2012 8:10 PM in response to OnMac
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    Feb 16, 2012 8:10 PM in response to OnMac

    You nailed it, _exact_ same isses as me, all the way down to the carpal tunnel

  • by mxccs,

    mxccs mxccs Feb 17, 2012 9:38 AM in response to Swiss Mann
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    Feb 17, 2012 9:38 AM in response to Swiss Mann

    I've just upgraded from SL to 10.7.3 and I am having an erratic mouse behaviour, although less problematic than those I've read before. So, the problem is still there

     

    My setup is

    MBP 13" early 2011

    External display connected through HDMI

    Logitech MX Laser 1000 (yes, almost 15 years and it still beats the younger generation)

     

    I'll try the suggested fixes but none are attractive (stop using 2nd disply and/or iTunes)

  • by incredimike,

    incredimike incredimike Feb 17, 2012 12:44 PM in response to incredimike
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    Feb 17, 2012 12:44 PM in response to incredimike

    I want to report back and say that my problems were not fixed, the weird mouse behaviour does flare up after my Summer '10 iMac running Lion 10.7.3 returns from sleep mode. Unfortunately I can't edit my old post, but it is not fixed for my machine.

  • by Philipp Steger,

    Philipp Steger Philipp Steger Feb 18, 2012 4:03 AM in response to Kevenly
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    Feb 18, 2012 4:03 AM in response to Kevenly

    I am having the same issue as described by "OnMac".

     

    The problem started when I hooked my MBP 15 (late 2009) to to external monitors, using the Matrox DualHead2Go DP edition.

     

    After a lot of troubleshooting, I too finally narrowed the problem down to i-tunes. When i-tunes is running, the magic mouse starts to skip and show delays. I stop i-tunes and the problem disappears immediately.

     

    I have contacted Matrox Tech Support in the process, and they have been very helpful. I am waiting to hear back from them, though, regarding my suspicion that the conflict is with i-tunes.

     

    For the time being, I will simply avoid having i-tunes running, unless absolutely necessary. Not a very satisfying solution; so I hope someone will come up with something better.

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