Mac OSX 10.1.4 & Microsoft Intellieye OSX Mouse drivers

**JeffCGD** · April 26th, 2002, 03:07 AM

I am currently running my Quicksilver 733 G4 Tower on Mac OSX 10.1.3, with the final release version of the Microsoft OSX mouse driver for my Intellieye Optical Explorer mouse.
I have been holding off on the OSX 10.1.4 upgrade due to unconfirmed reports that the upgrade breaks the Microsoft mouse driver (the mouse driver is listed at Microsoft's website as supporting OSX 10.1 - 10.1.3).
Can anyone categorically confirm or deny this rumor? As much as I love to be cutting edge with my OSX installation, I would prefer my multi-button mouse to be fully functional (How DID we survive so long in the Mac community WITHOUT multiple buttons and, especially, a scroll wheel?)

**voice-** · April 26th, 2002, 03:53 AM

I'll be the first to say that if you can look away from the fact that scroll is WAY too slow and that this driver ruins games and iTunes(funny thing, it scrolls without me even touching the mouse), the drivers are fine in 10.1.4 as well as 10.1.3.
I like the device to disable the driver for some apps...

10.1.4 if fine

**JeffCGD** · April 26th, 2002, 06:16 AM

Thanks for such a prompt reply on this issue.

I've found that the M$ driver is actually better for game playing than USBOverdrive, which I was using previously, given that a generic helper isn't being used to remap keys instead of proper driver commands.
As for the slow scrolling, try setting the scroll to accelerate up & down instead of scroll. I found that was much better, although I fully acknowledge that it is not as smooth as in OS9 or (ick!) a Wintel machine. Multi-directional scroll also doesn't work as it does in OS9, which is a shame.

**voice-** · April 26th, 2002, 06:35 AM

I find scrolling a lot better with a Logitech mouse.

and in games, to me it would think that both thumb-buttons were the same, so I went back to the default(love that disable-feature)

Happy upgrading

**JeffCGD** · April 26th, 2002, 08:19 PM

Please clarify whether you are basing your responses on your use of a Microsoft Intellieye driver & mouse, or a Logitech mouse & Driver.
I need to know whether the OSX 10.1.4 update is going to break the Microsoft driver, not any other.

regards,
JeffCGD

**voice-** · April 27th, 2002, 04:55 AM

As you can see from my signature, I have 4 computers I use every day.
1 of these(my PowerMac) uses the MS mouse with MS drivers.
The other 3 use Logitech mice.
What I meant was that I'm much more pleased with Logitech's scrolling...

MS dirvers will NOT break OS 10.1.4

**JeffCGD** · April 27th, 2002, 06:04 AM

Thanks to Voice for your feedback on this issue.

I ran the OSX 10.1.4 updater this evening an the mouse drivers still work as advertised. No problems whatsoever.

Regards,
JeffCGD