I've been using USB mice exclusively for several years. Wireless
ones, even. No problems. (Well, occasional problems, but not like
yours.)
Your symptoms make it sound like you've got a really long polling
interval. It could be a driver problem. It could be an X11 problem.
If you're running a VM or a remote protocol like VNC, synergy, or
xtox, that could be the problem. Or maybe your X server is thrashing.
I don't know how to diagnose a driver problem, aside from looking at
the dmesg tea leaves.
If it's a VM or remote protocol problem, you'd notice that it gets
better when you use the local, native host.
If it's an X11 problem, it could be that you've got multiple mouse
drivers configured in xorg.conf. The excerpt below is what I have and
you should have something similar. Specifically, you should NOT have
SampleRate or Resolution options configured (unless they really do
make your current mouse work better).
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
For more info, see the mousedrv(4) man page.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've tried to USB mouses with Linux. They suck beyond belief.
> The graphic cursor is extremely jumpy, making it hard to
> click on anything, even the big targets. Small targets
> are extremely frustrating. I'm talking about jumping by
> up to 1/2 inch on the screen.
>
> Somebody is screwing up big time. Has anybody gotten any
> USB mouse to work with Linux? I've seen this with two
> different computers. I've seen it with two different
> mice. The behavior is consistent.
>
> Mind you, PS2 mice work fine. It's just USB that sucks.
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