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Uninstalling RazerPro Mouse Drivers on OS X Leopard (SteerMouse FTW)

By Robert | May 14, 2008

I was already using SteerMouse, but wanted to try out the RazerPro 1.6.x drivers for my Razer Diamondback on my OS X Leopard system, only to find out that I should have just stayed with the tried-and-true SteerMouse.

The Razer website provides the following instructions for removing the RazerPro drivers from one’s machine:

There are 2 methods to uninstall the drivers. Note that the below does not remove the SystemLoginItem entry in the system preference.

  1. Run the uninstall.sh file that is included in the driver package.
  2. Launch the Terminal Application. Copy and paste the below commands one at a time.
    sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/RazerPRODriver.kext
    sudo rm -r "/Library/Application Support/Razer/RazerPRODaemon.app"
    sudo rm -r /Library/PreferencePanes/RazerPRO.prefPane
    rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.razer.PRO.plist
    sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/Razer\ PRO.pkg

While that cleaned up the important stuff, and allowed me to use SteerMouse again, I noticed that the RazerPRODaemon was still running…

2055 ?? 0:00.05 /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/RazerPRODaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/RazerPRODaemon

Killing the process won’t work (the daemon will launch again). I needed to remove a lingering .plist file:

sudo rm -r /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.PRO.RazerPRODaemon.plist

After killing the daemon, I removed the whole app:

sudo rm -r /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/RazerPRODaemon.app

That did the trick. Perhaps someone out there will find this teensy tidbit of information useful!

Topics: Technology, OS X |

One Response to “Uninstalling RazerPro Mouse Drivers on OS X Leopard (SteerMouse FTW)”

  1. Stephen Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Thanks for the tip. That seemed to fix my problem :)

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