Razer DeathAdder right click, scroll wheel disabled

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Razer DeathAdder right click, scroll wheel disabled

I bought a Razer DeathAdder Black Edition around a week ago. It comes with Mac drivers which I installed, however I installed ControllerMate and SteerMouse as well, in order to remap buttons and fix the acceleration and polling issues with high-res mice in OS X. Everything was working correctly until yesterday, when I enabled the included DeathAdder controller in ControllerMate.

Now right-clicking is disabled, and the scroll wheel does not function the way it used to. Whereas once the scroll wheel controlled the scroll bar, now it also scrolls and selects content within any Finder or browser window; the only way I can scroll up or down is to place the cursor over the scroll bar while I scroll. I have tried unplugging the mouse, restarting, and uninstalling the Razer drivers, ControllerMate and SteerMouse, to no avail. When I reinstall the Razer drivers and try to program the mouse buttons, the changes I make have no effect. It's as though something is overriding the drivers. The problem is, can't figure out what's doing it.

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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 6:10 PM

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Answer 1

junkbond

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Oct 4, 2011 7:27 PM in response to TeamHCN

I don't know if this will work, but try uninstalling everything, then manually go into Library folder to see if anything is left behind. Delete anything you see related to Razer, Controller Mate, and Steermouse.

Library->Application Support

Library->Preferences For example, ControllerMate has a "com.orderedbytes.ControllerMate.plist" file.

Library->PreferencePanes

Library->LaunchAgents For example, delete ControllerMateHelper if it's there.

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TeamHCN Author

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Oct 4, 2011 9:58 PM in response to junkbond

junkbound,

I tried that and rebooted, disconnected and then reconnected my keyboard and mouse. Same result. I forgot to mention in my original post but since encountering these problems I am also now unable to program either of the side buttons on the mouse.

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TeamHCN Author

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Oct 5, 2011 10:46 AM in response to TeamHCN

Alright,

I've now tried connecting the same mouse to a different computer. It works fine. This leads me to believe I may have changed something under System Preferences, but I'm not sure what that could be.

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Answer 4

Oct 5, 2011 4:40 PM in response to TeamHCN

The Razer support/forum(s) might prove more handy in this case, but in the mean time, try setting everything within their config app to "Passthrough" or some such, as it should tell the Razer driver to stop interfeering and let the other apps do their magic (instead).

Hope this helps.

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TeamHCN Author

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Oct 6, 2011 10:53 AM in response to François J. Perreault

Francois,

Thanks for the explanation of the passthrough option. That could turn out to be really useful. As it turns out the problems with the scroll wheel were to do with Lion (a similar post from another user on this forum confirms it). Specifically, the scroll up/down functions were being reassigned to left-click. I managed to fix that from within the Razer drivers. ControllerMate does most of what I want it to however it turns out in this case it was interfering with the Razer drivers. In the end, disabling the DeathAdder controller and restarting did the trick. I guess I'll have to reenable it once I understand ControllerMate a bit better.

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TeamHCN Author

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Oct 6, 2011 10:53 AM in response to TeamHCN

Dear Steve,

Thank you for giving us Toy Story, the personal computer, the iPod, iTunes, and too many other things to name. 56 years is not a long time to live, but boy did you make them count! Wherever you are now, take it easy – you've earned a break. We miss you. Sincerely,

Planet Earth

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