tlug: Linux mouse action (was win98 source)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Tim Meggs wrote:
> 
> >I probably shouldn't fwd this to the list, but it made me chuckle this morn
> >so I will .......
> 
> I saw this a few weeks ago, but it's always nice to read it again :-)
> 
> I don't buy this part, though:
> 
> >> >   {
> >> >     set_wait_states(lots);
> >> >     set_mouse(speed, very_slow);     
> >> >     set_mouse(action, jumpy);
> >> >     set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
> 
> 
> If the mouse action on Linux (within my experience; YMMV) was twice as
> good as it is now, it would still be only half as good as it is under
> Windows 95.  Something I would dearly love to see get better, since
> I would describe it very much as in the above code: jumpy at times
> (especially when Netscape is involved; at which point it won't move
> while pages are being loaded), slow, poor ballistics (increasing the
> mouse speed results in erratic movement because of this), etc.  Is it
> possible to improve mouse performance by increasing the execution
> priority of GPM, and if so, how is that done?

gpm has no effect under X.  You may have an IRQ sharing problem with the
mouse - I have *never* had any mouse problems with any version of Linux,
under X or otherwise.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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