Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello Martin, Thanks for your howto. It now also works on my system. (Previously, I only changed the Driver line without commenting out the other Option lines; that probably was the problem.) Have a nice day. Francesco At 9:59 PM -0700 9/26/07, Martin Olsson wrote: First make sure you have

Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, I always thought the mouse behaved a little weird in Linux. When I would drag-and-sweep select something with the mouse very quickly I would often end up with a selection that was smaller than I intended. Clearly there was some kind latency problem because X.org didn't get the mouse down

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Thanks for this interesting piece of information. Could you please paste the relevant section of the xorg.conf in a reply to this email, to show what has to be changed? In fact, I tried to do the change, but the X server did not startup correctly anymore. (I am back to the previous

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
First make sure you have this package installed: xserver-xorg-input-evdev I think your kernel needs to have evdev support to, or at least an evdev module loaded (but my gutsy kernel just worked out of the box). My original mouse configuration (which was really bad with all those latency