Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:03:50 -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.3.96.980618000109.2382B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980612155802.25601@papillon.lemis.com>
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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) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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