On November 4, 2003 12:10 am, Scott Zuk wrote: > On November 3, 2003 11:26 pm, Jon Copeland wrote: > > hi all, > > > > excluding the use of kde what other gui's provide an intuitive user > > experience that excludes the hassles of unmanageable interfaces. i have > > tried kde / gnome / windowmaker and one or two others and i have noticed > > that they all suffer from a single problem that i hope is my machine only > > (or possibly xfree related). the mouse lacks a massive amount of > > responsiveness with regards to how you use the gui as opposed to other > > OS's like macos and windows. what is it about linux that makes the mouse > > a practically unusable instrument? am i the only one that sees this? is > > this an already known problem without a fix in sight? my specs fyi: dexxa > > optical mouse ps/2, suse8.2 > > > > anyway as silly as it sounds this is the only thing holding me back from > > using linux for productivity reasons on a larger scale. dont get me > > wrong, i *am* using linux for servers but without a gui and for that i > > have no qualm. > > but it looks like something as trivial as this is not as apparent a > > problem in the community than i thought. > > > > am i wrong on this, please by all means tell me i am. > > > > -j- > > Hi Jon, > > What exactly do you mean by unresponsive? Do you find that the mouse > cursor is too slow (i.e. you have to move the mouse large distances) or do > you find the cursor position doesn't update enough and feels "chunky"? > > If the first case, try adding the following line to your > /etc/init.d/XF86Config-4 file in the section the mouse is configured in and
Sorry, this was supposed to be /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > restart X: > Option "Resolution" "1600" > You can play with the value yourself to find something suitable but I like > 1600. > > I've experienced the second problem with my 2.6-test6 kernel because the > ps2 mouse polling rate was changed to 60Hz from 100Hz but if you're using a > 2.4 kernel it should still be 100Hz. I had to recompile ps2 mouse support > as a module and pass in my desired polling rate as a parameter when loaded. > > I think adding the mouse resolution option to your X config will solve your > problem. > > ~Scott
