Re: Smooth, Fast Mouse Motion

[Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com>]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jerry Gardner wrote:
> 
> I've been trying for several months now to get smooth, fast mouse
> pointer motion in X without luck.
> 
> I've tried various 'xset m' settings, and I can either get smooth,
> slow mouse motion, or fast, jerky motion, but not fast, smooth motion.
>

There is some sort of SampleRate parameter you can set for certain types
of mice in XF86Config; you might look into that. 
 
> I do not like acceleration; I want smooth linear motion. Is there
> any way to achieve this in X? The same machine and the same mouse give 
> me exactly what I want in Windows NT, but Windows NT is not what I'd
> rather run.
> 

Hopefully you don't schoose your OS on this basis. :-)

Havoc