Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-01-30 16:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

> Optical mice are fine if you do not play action games, e.g. Quake.
> They cannot track really fast mouse movements.  Unless the newest
> generation is a lot faster.  My desktop came with an optical mouse,
> one Q3A game and I traded it for my wife's mechanical mouse.  She's
> happy, no cleaning.  I'm happy, no ending up staring at the game sky
> while trying to dodge incoming, unfriendly fire.

I have a logitech trackman marble+, an optical trackball, and it works  
fine. However, I have found that, at lest on all suse linux versions I  
tried, it can not track fast mouse movements - but I know it is not a  
hardware problem, because windows can track it as fast as I can move  
it: therefore, it is a linux software problem somewhere.

But it is not only optical mice: my other machine, with a normal mouse,  
has the same problem. Both plug to the ps/2 port (/dev/psaux). A serial  
mouse worked faster, but I wanted the comm  port free.

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Cheers,
      Carlos Robinson