Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:35:26 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to speedup PS/2 mouse port? Message-ID: <19980110143526.23914@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980110035551.dburr@POBoxes.com>; from Donald Burr on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 03:46:34AM -0800 References: <XFMail.980110035551.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 03:46:34AM -0800, Donald Burr wrote: > -----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.) man xset -- look at the `m' option Try `xset m 10'. Experiment with the acceleration value (10). You can also specify a `threshold' value after the acceleration value, but I seldom find it necessary. When you find a setting that suits you, place the command in your ~/.xinitrc file and enjoy the Trackman! [snip] -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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