Brett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:41:53 +0200
> Riccardo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Synopsis:   PS/2 mouse too slow in X
> > Category:   i386
> > Environment:
> >     System      : OpenBSD 5.1
> >     Details     : OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #160: Sun Feb 12 09:46:33 MST 2012
> >                      
> > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> > 
> >     Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
> >     Machine     : i386
> > 
> > Description:
> >     The X-Windows pointer, controlled by a PS/2 mouse, moves at a rate I
> > could reasonably
> > call too slow for any practical use.
> > Trying to set the mouse speed, both from the KDE Control Center and
> > via 'xset m A B' with any non-zero "B" produces no visible change;
> > enabling proportional acceleration (B = 0) with a relatively large
> > (according to the manpage for xset) "A", in my experiments = 5,
> > results in a formally correct yet unusable pointer that moves at this
> > slow speed until the physical mouse reaches a certain speed at which
> > point the pointer ends up jumping to the other side of the screen.
>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> There was a thread about this on the misc mailing list a couple of months ago:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=133118084916219&w=2

Well, it used to just work fine by default in 5.0 without having to fiddle
with random xinput and xset settings. By the way, the PS/2 mouse that behaves
badly on my Alix on the PS/2 port works as it used to when connected to
a PS/2 to USB adapter.

Regards
Dirk

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