Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:28:59 -0300 | From | John R Lenton <> | Subject | Re: [driver] New life for Serial mice |
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sorry I'm late, could you tell me where this driver/patch is?
also, my problem with USB mice on slow machines is that it takes up too much CPU, and you get a jumpy mouse if your box is doing a lot of work (like a heavy nfs server, say). Would this driver do the same to that box?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:21:34PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > If you still have your 3-button MouseSystems (or any other serial) mouse > > > somewhere in your driver, forgotten becase of the incredibly slow update > > > rate causing so much jumping of the pointer on the screen that it is > > > unusable, you may want to pull it out and give it a try. > > > > > > Or if you're still using it with some old 486 computer, this driver is > > > for you. > > > > > > What it does is that it enhances the update rate from 24 (with current > > > GPM and X drivers) to 96. This is almost what the best USB mice do. > > > > What's the "prediction" stuff? Does it mean you are guessing some values > > by interpolation? > > Extrapolation, yes. > > > [If so, what kind of update rate would it do on USB?] > > It wouldn't make any difference - on USB you always get whole packets, > while over serial port the data is processed byte by byte and thus we > know a little of the information before the whole packet arrives. > > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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