Re: mouse problem on 2.6.0-test9-bk9

[Fabio Coatti <cova@ferrara.linux.it>]

Alle 10:30, mercoledì 5 novembre 2003, Bob Gill ha scritto:
> The problem is that my mouse became slow.  It was very
> fast in 2.6.0-test9, but with bk9 it became very slow (4 edge-to-edge
> drags across the mouse pad to go across the screen).  "xset m 9 1"
> works, but I am at times unable to resize windows (the mouse is skipping
> over the edge of the window).  Option "Resolution" "250" in Section
> "InputDevice" of XF86Config and restarting the X server does not work
> either (nor does substituting for 250 : 15, 100, 500, 2000, 15000).
> It's a minor thing, but it would be nice to change the mouse speed
> again.

The same here, using /dev/psaux; I tried it too, changing resolution in Xfree 
4.3, without success.

I don't know if this is a small bug or now there is a different way to set 
mouse resolutions, but the default behaviour is changed.

Maybe the relevant change is this, test9-bk4 IIRC:
file: drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c  

@@ -471,13 +471,16 @@
  * We set the mouse report rate.
  */
-        psmouse_set_rate(psmouse);
+        if (psmouse_rate)
+                psmouse_set_rate(psmouse);

 /*
  * We also set the resolution and scaling.
  */

-        psmouse_set_resolution(psmouse);
+        if (psmouse_resolution)
+                psmouse_set_resolution(psmouse);
+
         psmouse_command(psmouse,  NULL, PSMOUSE_CMD_SETSCALE11);
 
 /*

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