Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:23:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse resolution. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980620211923.12412A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980618183046.40637@papillon.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: [...snip...] > >> 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? > > Yes. That's what comes of not reading the message carefully. Of > course, it could still be a conflict with disk access. Hmm, nothing I ever would have thought of.. :-) I've noticed it with absolutely no disk access occurring, and it doesn't update in random bursts. > > It moves even more fluidly than with my serial mouse (of course, it > > was a cheap low-res mouse). > > My impression is that the same mouse (convertible) is smoother on a > serial connection than on the PS/2 connector. As I said, I'll try > this out when I get home. I'll have to try this out myself with the trackball instead of my old mouse. > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- 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) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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