Hypersensitive mouse

Yalla-One · 06-21-2007, 10:56 AM

Hello,

I have a wireless logitech mouse that works well in Slackware, but is hypersensitive - ie. just one millimetre moving the mouse makes it travel "all over" the screen.

I've tried playing with the

Code:

Option "Resolution" "500"

settings in xorg.conf, but I can't really say it makes a difference.

I also tried playing with

Code:

xset m 1 30

for setting things there, but these options only seem to control the acceleration, and not the overall sensitivity of the mouse.

In other words, I'd like the mouse to travel a shorter pixel-distance on the screen for every millimetre I move it on my mousepad.

Anyone? Any insight greatly appreciated!

LightningCrash · 06-21-2007, 11:21 AM

Code:

xset m 2 4

try that out and see how it fares

if that's not enough, try

Code:

xset m 1/10 4

edit: some mice have a sensitivity that seems to only be able to change via dinking with the hardware somehow. happened to me once but i can't remember the details.

Yalla-One · 06-21-2007, 12:05 PM

This only controls the acceleration (ie how many pixels to travel before how much acceleration), and as such does not address the problem.

The challenge is that the mouse is too sensitive even before acceleration. When playing around to turn acceleration on, things go even more bananas.

I tried playing with the controlling files under
/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/subsystem/drivers/psmouse/serio1
such as rate and resolution, by setting these values to 200 (rather than default 100). (echo -n 200 > resolution) - this makes it less bad, but still not good.

Are there further parameters possible to pass to the psmouse module (other than those controlled by the sysfs files described above) ?

Computer is a Lenovo thinkpad T60

-y1

LightningCrash · 06-21-2007, 12:31 PM

This might be of interest to you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=864362

Seems like there's an app targeted specifically at Logitech beasties

simcox1 · 06-21-2007, 12:46 PM

Does moving the wireless hub further away make any difference? Or pressing the reset?

H_TeXMeX_H · 06-21-2007, 02:19 PM

Which wireless logitech mouse do you have ?

These might be of use:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Advanced_Mouse
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Advance...Configurations

Yalla-One · 06-22-2007, 12:02 PM

Thanks for the pointers - they certainly seem to have the right approach.

I added this to lilo.conf to control the usbhid interface:

Code:

append = "usbhid.mousepoll=5"

However, this seems to turn the mouse into some sort of Frankenstein, with a life of its own.

The mouse and keyboard only says "Logitech Cordless Mouse / Logitech Cordless Keyboard" without further specification - it's rather old.

I suspect this might boil down to Linux being more strict on its hardware than Windows, but it bothers me that this detail of the system actually works better under Windows...

I also tried to play with other numbers - having mousepoll=2 (causing the resolution to be 500), was clearly way too much, but 5 (200, twice the default) seems to be the best compromise.

It's better, but still not 100%. Whenever my hands start being as jerky as the mouse currently is, I'm hopefully very very old and wise... ;-)

Thanks for the insight!

-y1

H_TeXMeX_H · 06-22-2007, 12:34 PM

You could always try the 'evdev' driver instead of 'mouse' driver if it is a USB mouse. See the Gentoo wiki.

Yalla-One · 06-23-2007, 03:53 AM

Good call with evdev - thanks again!!

However, when moving to evdev as suggested, Xorg crashes and exits.

My xorg.conf contains:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse"
    Driver      "evdev"
    Option      "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
    Option      "CorePointer"
    # Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
    # Option      "Buttons" "7"
    # Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

and the "Name" part is based on cat /proc/bus/input/devices:

Code:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c505 Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event5
B: EV=20007
B: KEY=ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0
 0 1878 d800d100 1e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: LED=ff00

However - this gives the following error (and exit) when xorg starts:

Code:

(II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (1).
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Core Pointer
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Found 3 relative axes.
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Configuring as pointer.
(**) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: WHEELRelativeAxisButtons: 4 5.
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Found 95 mouse buttons
(**) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Configuring 3 relative axes.
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Configured 97 mouse buttons
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "no"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "no"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
(II) <default pointer>: Setting Device option to "/dev/input/mice"
(--) <default pointer>: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(==) <default pointer>: Protocol: "Auto"
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) <default pointer>: always reports core events
(==) <default pointer>: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) <default pointer>: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) <default pointer>: Buttons: 9
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "<default pointer>" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "evdev brain" (type: evdev brain)
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0: Init
(**) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: 3 valuators.
(**) evdev_btn.c (166): Registering 97 buttons.
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: Init
(II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (2).
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0: On
(II) Mouse-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1: On
(--) <default pointer>: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) <default pointer>: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c5404]
1: [0xb7f81420]
2: /usr/bin/X(main+0x6b5) [0x8070455]
3: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7d8adf8]
4: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x806f561]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Is this an xorg bug, or yet another user error on my end?

Thanks much for all the insight so far - I really hope to be able to solve this one and heal the spastic mouse

-h1

regis_n_bits · 06-23-2007, 05:23 AM

Try adding the "Device" option to the InputDevice section. For your setup it would be:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse"
    Driver      "evdev"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
    Option      "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
    Option      "CorePointer"
    # Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
    # Option      "Buttons" "7"
    # Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

The value "event5" comes from your /proc/bus/input/devices.

I have also seen Xorg crash in a similar way when I tried using the evdev driver with using the Name option alone (different mouse in my case - Microsoft). Adding the "Device" option fixed it for me.

Yalla-One · 06-23-2007, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by regis_n_bits

Try adding the "Device" option to the InputDevice section.

Thanks much - you're a star! By adding the device it works like a charm.

However, since moving to evdev I lost the scrollwheel.

By following the Gentoo wiki I ran the command:

Code:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32"

It sort of does the trick, as the scroll wheel works, but now the middle and right mousebutton are switched.

This seems to be an area of relatively poor documentation - any insight on how I get scroll and "paste" on middle button, and normal right-click on the right button?

Thanks again for your insight!

Yalla-One · 06-23-2007, 10:55 AM

There seems to be nothing like "random" experiments...

The following xmodmap statement did the trick:

pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8 9 10 11 12

Thanks to all who contributed!

H_TeXMeX_H · 06-23-2007, 02:00 PM

Good. Post back if you have problems ...