xinput didn't work for me at all. Neither was changing the sensitivity in the default mouse application or in gpointing-device-settings. What DID work for me was change the value in "/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/sensitivity" to 200. It worked immediately.
Good luck. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682193 Title: Mouse acceleration significantly reduced after upgrade to 17.04 Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My external Logitech USB mouse was behaving nicely under 16.10 but after upgrade to 17.04 it has slowed down to a crawl. Settings slidebars are set at the maximum acceleration, but it only affects the touch pad, the mouse is extremely slow. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1682193/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp