> >How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I > >almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the > >screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. > > > >I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting > >things in X? X is accessing the mouse directly, not via the GPM repeater. > > I have a similar problem. I am using the gpm repeater(/dev/gpmdata) > to pass the input of two pointers, a keypad pointer(/dev/ttyS0) and a > mouse(/dev/psaux) to gpm and X. The pointer is more responsive so I > have lowered it with gpm and that works find under the tty's. > > gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -M -m /dev/ttyS0 -t ms -r 2 > > However X does not seem to pay attention to what gpm has set for the > pointer responsiveness so the cursor is super sensitive with the > pointer and normal with the mouse.
As I suspected, if X reads the mouse directly (and it does unless you are using it with GPM's "repeater" mode, the settings made via GPM won't affect X. The "xset m <num> <threshold>" command (in your .xsession) works pretty well, though. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated by Signify v1.02. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .