On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:12 PM Camiel Vanderhoeven < camiel.vanderhoe...@vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/18, 6:49 PM, "Rico Pajarola" <r...@servium.ch> wrote: > > > > I have tried to print my own mousepad, but the mouse only works in the y > direction on it. > > there were 2 versions of that mousepad, and the symptom of using the wrong > one was that the mouse would only move in one direction. > > > > There was another version of the print-it-yourself mouse pad that's > essentially just white noise, have you tried that? > > > > I know I need the one with the grid, because it’s shown in the > documentation. > the white noise mouse pad is not an official thing, but it's reported to work for some optical mice. I haven't tried it myself. YMMV. I have just created and printed a simple grid, with two lines per > millimeter. If someone has already created one that you can download and > print that works, that would be great. > The pad has different resolutions for x and y axis, and one axis (x axis?) seems to be more sensitive to wrong spacing (if the mouse only moves in one direction it could also be a symptom of a mousepad rotated by 90 degrees). So maybe you need to experiment with the grid size a bit. > > Camiel >
