Adjusting Mouse Sensitivity

RodWC · 07-01-2006, 01:35 PM

I'm somewhat ashamed to have to resort to asking for help in this situation, but, I have a small problem. I have a laptop that has Debian on it (not my main one) and was pretty outdated, so I did a dist-upgrade to unstable. Long story short: the mouse (touchpad) is excrutiatingly slow. It's responsive and smooth, just not sensitive enough. I tried adjusting the acceleration through KDE, but that did nothing. I looked at xorg.conf on a hunch and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. I know someone must not be as dumb as me. A little help would be very much appreciated.

dracae · 07-01-2006, 05:07 PM

Most touchpads emulate a simple ps2 mouse, assuming that the first thing you should do is configure it to use the synaptics touchpad driver. You may need install it if it isn't already. Then setup your xorg appropriately. He is a copy of mine

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option "LeftEdge" "120"
        Option "RightEdge" "830"
        Option "TopEdge" "120"
        Option "BottomEdge" "650"
        Option "FingerLow" "14"
        Option "FingerHigh" "15"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
        Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
        Option "ClickTime" "0"
        Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "10"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
        Option "MinSpeed" "0.45"
        Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
        Option "AccelFactor" "0.020"
        Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
        Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
        Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "0"
        Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection