Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:41:53 +0200 > Riccardo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Synopsis: PS/2 mouse too slow in X > > Category: i386 > > Environment: > > System : OpenBSD 5.1 > > Details : OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #160: Sun Feb 12 09:46:33 MST 2012 > > > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > > > > Architecture: OpenBSD.i386 > > Machine : i386 > > > > Description: > > The X-Windows pointer, controlled by a PS/2 mouse, moves at a rate I > > could reasonably > > call too slow for any practical use. > > Trying to set the mouse speed, both from the KDE Control Center and > > via 'xset m A B' with any non-zero "B" produces no visible change; > > enabling proportional acceleration (B = 0) with a relatively large > > (according to the manpage for xset) "A", in my experiments = 5, > > results in a formally correct yet unusable pointer that moves at this > > slow speed until the physical mouse reaches a certain speed at which > > point the pointer ends up jumping to the other side of the screen. > > Hi Ricardo, > > There was a thread about this on the misc mailing list a couple of months ago: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=133118084916219&w=2
Well, it used to just work fine by default in 5.0 without having to fiddle with random xinput and xset settings. By the way, the PS/2 mouse that behaves badly on my Alix on the PS/2 port works as it used to when connected to a PS/2 to USB adapter. Regards Dirk
