Hello again, I'm sorry to post about this again, but I didn't get any response last time and I'm just wondering if anyone can explain this behavior for me. Shouldn't changing psmouse_rate change the frequency at which the mouse polling routines (or whatever) get data from the mouse?
Thanks, Yousef 2009/4/25 Yousef Alhashemi <[email protected]> Hello list, > > So I'm messing around with the PS/2 mouse driver > (drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c), and I'm wondering what the > psmouse_rate variable is for. From the source file itself, the rate > parameter of the module is described as "Report rate, in reports per > second". The description is pretty straightforward, but I'm asking because > when I changed that value to 1 (i.e. the mouse is now supposed to report > changes in state every one second), the mouse was still very responsive (and > the cursor location was updated immediately as opposed to updating every > full second as I was expecting). In other words, changing psmouse_rate from > 100 to 1 didn't seem to have any effects on the "report rate" (if my > understanding of "report rate" is correct). > > Thanks, > Yousef > >
