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My wife had a corded +</I>><i> mouse up until last week when it died. I have replaced it with 2 +</I>><i> cordless mice and the mouse is really choppy (the tracking). I have +</I>><i> tried both mice on my main Mageia2 box and the mice are working fine. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm not sure what to look for the fix. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Marc +</I> +I've had problems with mice which are too severe and I can't easily control +them (probably not your problem though). The solution was to install the +xinput rpm, then do an "xinput list" to find out the name of your mouse:- + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">derij at pip</A> ~]$ xinput list +â¡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] +â â³ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] +â â³ Stylus1 id=6 [slave pointer (2)] +â â³ Eraser1 id=7 [slave pointer (2)] +â â³ Cursor1 id=8 [slave pointer (2)] +â â³ Pad1 id=9 [slave pointer (2)] +â â³ USB Optical Mouse id=15 [slave pointer (2)] +⣠Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] + â³ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] + â³ Power Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] + â³ Power Button id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] + â³ NOVATEK USB Keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] + â³ NOVATEK USB Keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] + â³ em28xx IR (em28xx #0) id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] + +And use the name in a command to set one of the properties, in my case +"Device Accel Constant Deceleration". + +xinput set-prop 'USB Optical Mouse' --type=float "Device Accel Constant +Deceleration" 2.4 + +There are many other properties which can be set:- + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">derij at pip</A> ~]$ xinput list-props "USB Optical Mouse" +Device 'USB Optical Mouse': + Device Enabled (125): 1 + Coordinate Transformation Matrix (127): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, +0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 + Device Accel Profile (244): 0 + Device Accel Constant Deceleration (245): 2.400000 + Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (246): 1.000000 + Device Accel Velocity Scaling (247): 10.000000 + Device Product ID (268): 6447, 1046 + Device Node (254): "/dev/input/event17" + Evdev Axis Inversion (298): 0, 0 + Evdev Axes Swap (300): 0 + Axis Labels (301): "Rel X" (135), "Rel Y" (136) + Button Labels (302): "Button Left" (128), "Button Middle" (129), +"Button Right" (130), "Button Wheel Up" (131), "Button Wheel Down" (132), +"Button Horiz Wheel Left" (133), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (134) + Evdev Middle Button Emulation (286): 0 + Evdev Middle Button Timeout (287): 50 + Evdev Third Button Emulation (288): 0 + Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (289): 1000 + Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (290): 3 + Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (291): 20 + Evdev Wheel Emulation (292): 0 + Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (293): 0, 0, 4, 5 + Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (294): 10 + Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (295): 200 + Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (296): 4 + Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (297): 0 + +See if any make the mouse usage easier. I put my custom settings in a file +which gets run during KDE startup. I also have the script on the desktop since +if the USB mouse becomes detached the settings go back to the defaults. + +Cheers + +Deri + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008791.html">[Mageia-discuss] Problems with new cordless mice +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008793.html">[Mageia-discuss] Problems with new cordless mice +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8792">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8792">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8792">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8792">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |