[comp.sys.mac] Egregious mouse behavior

terence@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Terence Chang) (01/23/89)

Let's suppose you have a Mac+, System 6.0, Finder 6.1.  Let's suppose
you removed the battery for P-RAM backup and put the Mac in storage
for a couple months.  When you restore everything to working order,
you can set the date and time and speaker volume via the Control Panel
just fine.

But for some reason, for the Mouse cdev, the mouse speed stubbornly
stays on "tablet" (a.k.a. "very slow").  Booting off of System 4.2,
where there is no such thing as variable mouse speed, everything
behaves as expected.  Any advice?
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dudevoir@isl.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir) (01/23/89)

In article <8997@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> terence@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Terence Chang) writes:
>Let's suppose you have a Mac+, System 6.0, Finder 6.1.  Let's suppose
>you removed the battery for P-RAM backup and put the Mac in storage
>for a couple months.  When you restore everything to working order,
>you can set the date and time and speaker volume via the Control Panel
>just fine.
>
>But for some reason, for the Mouse cdev, the mouse speed stubbornly
>stays on "tablet" (a.k.a. "very slow").  Booting off of System 4.2,
>where there is no such thing as variable mouse speed, everything
>behaves as expected.  Any advice?

You didn't mention whether you were running any inits, but  I have seen
exactly this behavior when running Stepping Out. Removing Stepping
Out from the system folder and rebooting solves the problem

Glen