Cut mouse polling rate in half

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 14:59, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:52 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> The mouse works perfectly, however the "DPI" is very high.
>
> If you are prepared to jigger with xorg.conf, try adding a line like
> this to the pointer section:
>
>    Option "resolution" "750"
>
> - and try different values for the resolution.
>

I might play with that. Thanks. It's been a long time since I've even
had an xorg.conf!


> And *have you tried slowing the mouse down*?
>
>    System->Preferences->Mouse->Sensitivity
>

Actually KDE doesn't have this!

> If the mouse is unusably fast on Linux and Windows, there would be an
> argument for saying it was not of merchantable quality. You might be
> able to take it back for a refund or exchange. Sometimes there are
> switches or similar on or in the mouse that set these sorts of
> characteristics, but it would be unusual to find them on a cheap mouse.
>

Consumer protection laws? Not in the middle east! In any case, this is
the only mouse that I found that fits her hand so I'd like to keep it.

Thanks.

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