From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:29:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:29:24 -0400 Received: from odin.sinectis.com.ar ([216.244.192.158]:35847 "EHLO mail.sinectis.com.ar") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:29:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:28:59 -0300 From: John R Lenton To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [driver] New life for Serial mice Message-ID: <20010608152859.B20894@grulic.org.ar> Mail-Followup-To: Vojtech Pavlik , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010606125556.A1766@suse.cz> <20010606232133.E38@toy.ucw.cz> <20010608181521.A1998@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5I6of5zJg18YgZEa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010608181521.A1998@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable sorry I'm late, could you tell me where this driver/patch is? also, my problem with USB mice on slow machines is that it takes up too much CPU, and you get a jumpy mouse if your box is doing a lot of work (like a heavy nfs server, say). Would this driver do the same to that box? On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:21:34PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: >=20 > > > If you still have your 3-button MouseSystems (or any other serial) mo= use > > > somewhere in your driver, forgotten becase of the incredibly slow upd= ate > > > rate causing so much jumping of the pointer on the screen that it is > > > unusable, you may want to pull it out and give it a try. > > >=20 > > > Or if you're still using it with some old 486 computer, this driver is > > > for you.=20 > > >=20 > > > What it does is that it enhances the update rate from 24 (with current > > > GPM and X drivers) to 96. This is almost what the best USB mice do. > >=20 > > What's the "prediction" stuff? Does it mean you are guessing some values > > by interpolation? >=20 > Extrapolation, yes. >=20 > > [If so, what kind of update rate would it do on USB?] >=20 > It wouldn't make any difference - on USB you always get whole packets, > while over serial port the data is processed byte by byte and thus we > know a little of the information before the whole packet arrives. >=20 > --=20 > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >=20 --=20 John Lenton (john@grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune: Hear about... the nymphomaniac teenager popularly known as Little Often Annie? --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7IRlrgPqu395ykGsRAuGuAJ9JnVBdqKEM3i1pq9i+XTfok8eT+ACeI8uP 4cNSvtEJFoRvv4pXykUfjDc= =Tbhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa--