Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:46:34 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to speedup PS/2 mouse port? Message-ID: <XFMail.980110035551.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This week I finally upgraded my venerable old 486 to a brand new, shiny Pentium 133. My new motherboard is great. Built-in floppy/IDE/serial ports, so I can finally ditch my old multi I/O card. And a PS/2 Mouse Port! "Wow, this is pretty neat," i thought, "I can finally plug my Logitech TrackMan Vista into the PS/2 port and thus free up a serial port!" (The TrackMan Vista is a PS/2 device, and I have been running it through one of my serial ports using a PS/2->serial adapter.) So I plugged it in, compiled the psm0 driver into my kernel (2.2.5-R), and voila! It works! Only problem is that the mouse pointer (in both X and syscons) is on the slowish side. I have to move the mouseball quite a number of inches to fully traverse my 17-inch monitor desktop. Is there any way to speed up the response of this mouse (i.e. add acceleration, etc.)? (I checked my BIOS; it has no such setting.) (I'm more concerned with mouse response under X than under syscons, since I use X more often.) Please respond to me by e-mail at <dburr@POBoxes.com>. Thanks! ded my venerable old 486 to a brand new, shiny Pentium 133. My new motherboard is great. Built-in floppy/IDE/serial ports, so I can finally ditch my old multi I/O card. And a PS/2 Mouse Port! I thought this was cool, be - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNLdhxvjpixuAwagxAQEPOgQAtbzfofaPtv+OgoiuqRrIemEfoy89z93s 3jTOIAaKfNSUVL4fwT8LDH4TJlV8Au0Z+ZbsCIWHWyj68jDdYdCAoZkOFKUpbBk0 /VYmdBW84wQcnm/egcJIJnt3R60sQouru7JHWy7k7ff9x/pGbfUzRwP7J5PbfHqQ Zbt5XZMDA2Q= =3ZOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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