Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 07:52:06 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse resolution. Message-ID: <XFMail.980618075206.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980618000109.2382B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On 18-Jun-98 Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 June 1998 at 18:34:38 -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: >> > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Duncan Barclay wrote: >> > >> >> Just upgraded my motherboard to one with a PS/2 port on it (FIC PT-2007, >> >> 430TX). >> >> >> >> I moved my mouse (Logicitech MouseMan) from sio0 to the PS/2 port and it >> >> is now >> >> "slower" and a pain to use under X. I guess the resolution has increased, >> >> can >> >> moused be used to fake it back top where it was before? >> >> >> >> I've tried upping the X acceleration but don't really like it, feels >> >> wrong. >> >> >> >> I don't want to go back the serial port, I want it for the console of >> >> my (new) crash box. >> > >> > I noticed something similar when I bought this new trackball, which sits >> > on the PS/2 port. The cursor zips across the screen fast enough, but >> > selecting text in an xterm is a whole different story. It used to be that >> > when I clicked/dragged to select text the "reverse" selection followed the >> > cursor perfectly. Now it lags behind the cursor and updates in bursts. >> > Weird, eh? Anyone know why this happens? >> >> Interesting. The "updates in bursts" looks like an interrupt problem. >> I've had similar problems, but I hadn't associated them with the >> change from serial to PS/2. I'm currently using a MouseMan on a >> serial port on my laptop, and it works fine, but I've been having real >> problems on my "real" machine with a PS/2 port. I thought it was the >> screen resolution (1600x1200) which was causing the problems, but now >> I'll investigate more carefully. >> > > If it were an interrupt problem, wouldn't the cursor itself move jumpily > and not just the inverse selection? It moves even more fluidly than with > my serial mouse (of course, it was a cheap low-res mouse). > > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) > (http://www.freebsd.org) */ > > Well I managed to find my slowness the problem after RTFM, it appears that when my mouse is used as a PS/2 device it's resolution is lower than it is when used as a serial device. Found the -r flag to moused to be useful! Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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