Ummm...I have a Labtec optical mouse. You know those, the ones you get for $20 from futureshop. Well, with windows, it runs perfectly and smoothly even without checking off the "Smooth Mouse Motion". I linux, the mouse is choppy, jammed, and gay! To start moving it, it requires alot of motion. And to move it a couple of milimeters, is impossible. I almost ended up smashing this thing kuz it gets sooo annoying! Because of it, I feel like my system can't handle mouse motion :P and that makes me angry. Is there a way to fix this common bug? Does this have to do with the sample rate?

Hmmm...I think that I have the same problem, although my mouse isn't optical. Where can you alther the sample rate? What distro are you using?

Any distro using X11 allows you to configure the Samplerate in the xf86config in the /etc/X11/ directory

Ok...thanks. (oh boy, i literally just finished configuring XF86 for my KDS monitor