Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:35:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse resolution. Message-ID: <19980624173514.L5023@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980618183046.40637@papillon.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 06:30:46PM -0500 References: <19980612155802.25601@papillon.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980618000109.2382B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> <19980618183046.40637@papillon.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 18 June 1998 at 18:30:46 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, 18 June 1998 at 0:03:50 -0500, 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? > > Yes. That's what comes of not reading the message carefully. Of > course, it could still be a conflict with disk access. > >> 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'm home now, and I've tried it out. It turns out my recollection was defective: the mouse was already connected as a serial mouse. I tried it on PS/2, and as Duncan Barclay observes, the mouse slowed down. 'xset m' doesn't help much either--if I really speed it up, it jumps in increments of up to 10 pixels. Some of this may be due to the old version of Xinside I'm using, of course. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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