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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:27:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de
Subject:   Re: moused linear acceleration drops
Message-ID:  <200706150727.l5F7R64r058174@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <200706150852.17083.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>

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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
 > 3 months ago moused was extended by a _very_ nice feature: Dynamic 
 > acceleration. It works really fine.

Nice to hear that (I wrote the patch).  :)

 > But the linear ac(de)celeration seems to 'drop' moving information.
 > I have a 1600dpi mouse which is far to quick by default.
 > When I use 'xset m 1/3' the speed is fine and also every smallest movement 
 > gets recognized.
 > When I use '-a 0.33' with moused (besides -A 1.6/2 with xset m 1) small (and 
 > slow) movement's are not reported. I have to move at some minimal speed to 
 > get the cursor moving.
 > So it seems that info gets droped.

It's probably a rounding problem.  I'll have a look at it.
My mice and trackballs aren't that sensitive, so I didn't
notice such a problem.

I assume that there's no such problem if you don't use the
new -A option, right?  (i.e. no regression, I hope.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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