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Title: I learned something interesting today
Post by: daikiki on November 21, 2005, 08:18:53 pm

Apparently the laptop that's currently functioning as the brain of my mame has trouble pushing enough power through the USB port to my minipac, resulting in irritatingly intermittent behaviour. I thought for sure it was a damaged cable, but I was a little surprised to find that the minipac works consistantly when hooked up to a desktop. The solution: a powered USB hub. I don't know whether this has been brought up before, but I figured I'd post it here in the hope that anybody who encounters the same problem in the future would be able to find it in the search.

Title: Re: I learned something interesting today
Post by: Cutty on November 21, 2005, 08:31:26 pm

Would yours not save the settings you give it? That's what mine started doing, and I am running it off my laptop.

Title: Re: I learned something interesting today
Post by: daikiki on November 21, 2005, 08:48:02 pm

No, that's not the problem I've been having. Windows would simply tell me that I'd installed a defective USB device. The device drivers showed that the mouse and keyboard emu worked, but not the trackball. Wasn;t actually the case though. Nothing worked. I'd suggest you try programming the minipac on a desktop, just to make sure that your problem isn't power related. You never know.