Cut mouse polling rate in half
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 04:07:58 UTC 2011
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:52 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > In the Olden Days, when there were lots of different mice, you had to
> > have the right driver. If you had the wrong driver, the mouse would do
> > things like rush to one corner, or off to one side, or leap about the
> > screen. Some mice had higher
> >
> > Is it possible that any of the following are true:
> >
> > - it's an old mouse
> > - it's a ball mouse (!)
> > - it's an optical mouse on a mirrored or transparent or deeply
> > cracked/pitted surface
> > - the optical opening is partly blocked eg by a hair
That is most likely a problem with an optical mouse, a bit of cruft in
the light opening on the bottom. Yeah, HAIR is the biggy around here
with two dogs, two cats and one crufty old guy, losing his hair as
well. :) Ric
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