Re: LogitechForceFeedback.kext

In article 1iyf942.1ll1cdf15if8qeN%mikePOST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike
Rosenberg at mikePOST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 4/19/09 1:33 PM:

Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

I did mention the problem as one we discussed some time ago:

Are you currently using
a Logitech device?

An old MouseMan Optical. I installed it when the scroll ball on my Mighty
Mouse became impossible to clean. Apple subsequently did, however, replace
the mouse. Since then, and since trying (but discarding) USB Overdrive and
SteerMouse, MM's 3rd & 4th buttons no longer work. (We had this discussion
before.)

The problem remains: the 3rd & 4th buttons on my MM don't work. And I don't
know why -- it seems to be independent of the presence (or lack thereof) of
the Logitech software: the Logitech mouse works without installing the LCC
software, though it doesn't offer much beyond scrolling and clicking without
the LCC installation; it apparently doesn't need the
LogitechForceFeedback.kext either...it "vanished" from my
/System/Library/Extensions folder months ago.

Okay, so you have an ongoing problem with your MouseMan optical, and
rather than say you're looking for general help in solving that problem,


No, it's an ongoing problem with my Mighty Mouse that seemed to begin after
I installed the MouseMan, as well as installed and removed USB Overdrive and
Steermouse. And having "bothered" you before with this same problem, I
certainly didn't want to re-open the topic again, before being sure I did my
best to resolve it on my own.

The purpose of my current thread, therefore, was not to immediately delve
into asking the same question all over again, but to ask a new question that
arouse during the course of my "investigation," the answer to which I
thought might provide some insight into the ultimate cause of the problem.

you post with a subject specifically asking about the presence of
absence of a specific .kext file?

As I dug into it a bit, I discovered the presence of the Logitech .kext file
in an old version of my system (very old TM record), that no longer was
present in my current system...and, for that matter, hadn't been in my
system since about the time I updated it to 10.5.4. I also discovered that
my Software Update Log has no record of the 10.5.4 update. This seemed like
a strange coincidence.

And, like you, I was quite surprised to discover that Apple had been
including the file in the OS for quite a while. (So, _if nothing else_, we
both learned something new about Apple's inclination to include 3rd-party
software in its OS.)


I seriously don't know how you expect
anyone to understand what you're looking for from that.

In light of what I just said, all I was expecting was help answering a
simple question:

* At one point, the above kernel extension was in my system.

* It's been gone for quite a while.

* I'm wondering if I inadvertently removed it, or if it was removed
previously by the 10.5.4 system update.

(I knew that it originally was part of the OS, but wondered if Apple had
removed it recently, perhaps because of problems (such as the kind I've been
experiencing) it may have been causing.)


Or are you and Howard Brazee having some sort of competition to see who
can be the most indirect in asking for help without having people ignore
you entirely or killfile you? ;-)


Never heard of him...but Google seems to indicate that he is online 24 X 7
posting in every conceivable forum he possibly can find.


Moreover, on one of my external drives (used solely to run TechTool Pro and
DiskWarrior) I'm running the original OS that came with my current machine
(10.5.2); it has (by default) the LogitechForceFeedback.kext installed
(Apple included it, beginning with 10.2.2), and I have no problem using
either mouse (or both, simultaneously) when booting to that drive.

What happens when you log in to a different user account on your
internal drive? Does the problem remain?

Yes. It certainly seems systemic to my internal drive.

--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) ? OS X (10.5.6)

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