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 this package installed: >xserver-xorg-input-evdev > >My original mouse configuration (which was really bad with all those >latency problems) looked like this: > >Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" >EndSection > >The mouse configuration that I now use instead (the evdev one, which >doesn't have any sweep-select latency problems at all) looks like >this: > >Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "evdev" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >EndSection > ><snip> > >PS. I have posted bug 144277 in launchpad suggesting that evdev >becomes the default mouse driver in Ubuntu: >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/144277 > > > >Martin > > >Francesco Fumanti wrote: >>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 settings) >> >>Maybe I changed the wrong line in the xorg.conf file? >> >>Cheers >> >>Francesco >> >> >> >>At 8:24 PM -0700 9/26/07, Martin Olsson wrote: >>>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 event until I had already moved the mouse cursor quit a bit. >>>I assume(d) that this was one of many unpolished things that would >>>eventually be corrected. >>> >>>Earlier this week a more experienced Linux user showed me a way to fix >>>this problem. Apparently, if I edit my xorg.conf file and switch the >>>mouse input driver to "evdev" the mouse becomes extremely snappy and >>>high precision. When I select stuff, exactly what I intended is >>>selected. I love it! >>> >>>This little revelation made me realize that there is probably many >>>people out there who are using Ubuntu with this kind of, not that >>>severe, but still annoying mouse latency problems. Fixing this might be >>>as simple as switching to "evdev" by default in Ubuntu (even though I >>>admit that I have no idea about the actual difference in scope/purpose >>>of the standard input driver versus the evdev driver). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Martin >>> >>>-- >>>Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
