Microsoft Wireless Optical Blue mouse-- accuracy, sensitivity?
 

alright I am in a similar situation to this guy: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/29036

However, he ended up taking it back and I would prefer to keep mine because it was a gift from my girlfriend. (I think she got a deal on it and we're both students, and it's sort of sentimental) So here's the question.

I used the "microsoft intellimouse" drivers when kudzu recognized it. The mouse works, but it's really not that accurate or sensative. I dont' know whether it's a driver that I need or I need to set something in the Kontrol Panel in KDE, or whatever file it edits.

So could anyone either point me in the direction of a driver or how to set the sensativity?

I'll send screenshots, etc of the mouse settings when I get home. I'm currently visiting my grandparents a couple of hours away and I won't be home till ten or eleven.

If anyone can give me any help in the mean-time it would be greatly appreciated.

Nate the Newbie

If it's very bad it's not going to be any adjustment.
I would say get another mouse..
You can keep the blue one as a relic of the past.
It's just not going to be worth the frustration.


microsoft might have built it that way to discourage Linux users

I edited my XF86Config-4 file and used a different included file that I'd read about in another post about this (the other guy got a new mouse). I'm now using whatever driver the guy w/ a logitech wheel uses

/dev/input/mice

before it was just

/dev/mouse


after that driver and tweaking the acceleration and threshold a bit (i'll probably end up tweaking even more) it seems to work ok. The wheel still fails to work, however.

Maybe someone will write something in a few months...

if anyone has another mouse driver that works w/ wheeled mice I'd be happy to hear about it. I think I'll upgrade to RH8 and see if they've got anything. I need to get an older version of kde though.

I'm not ready to give up on it yet

thanx

If that comforts you I can tell you that is a crappy mouse, it is bad in Windows too, I hate how heavy it gets with batteries. Buy Logitech corded optical wheel mouse, much better and works excellent.

hey do you have

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "3"


the wheel is actually two butons 4 and 5

yeah, I had the zaxis...

and I added "Buttons"...


but I've still got nothing

I dont' know, I think I'm definately going to keep this thing-- it works fine w/ just the two buttons, and I went years before recently w/o a middle scroll. I'll just wait a couple months till it's supported

thanx

gpm may be causing a problem with the wheel

before starting X run this

logged in as normal and then as root

bash:gpm:command not found

?

maybe I don't know if that's a universal command or just my distro

I'm gonna completely reinstall anyhow, so it probably wont matter

thanx though

Nate
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update: I just used the mouse in windows for the first time. Faster install, but it moves about the same. hehe