Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:38:53 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [MOUSE] Alias for /dev/psaux |
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:33:41AM +0000, John Bradford wrote: > > XFree86 also sets the mouse to 200dpi > > That's odd, I have a mouse which doesn't work correctly unless I > specifically add an Option "Resolution" "200" line to XF86Config.
This has changed between the versions of XFree86. Older versions used a value of 100 which is the PS/2 default. Because of mice which give trouble when they don't get a 200, like yours, this was changed in the recent version(s).
> Either the default isn't 200, or something else must be happening > differently when I set the resolution manually. > > Without a resolution option at all, the mouse has to be moved at a > certain speed to register movement at all. This has nothing to do > with accelleration, (which I don't use). Moving the mouse slowly, for > any length of time, never produces any movement on-screen. Moving it > quickly does. With the resolution set to 200 or above, it works as > expected. Lower than 200, and it exhibits the strange behavior. > > The same thing happens with gpm. > > (This behavior is observable with 2.4. I haven't tested this mouse > with the in-kernel driver in 2.6 yet).
Please test, but after you apply the patch.
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