At 11:27 AM -0600 3/8/07, Frank Cox wrote: >I just got a new Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A to replace my old Genius >Netmouse. It's plugged into the mouse port on this computer. > >very so often when I use it, the mouse pointer suddenly relocates to a >completely different area of the screen and I have to search for it. > >I didn't do anything special to install or set this mouse up -- it just worked >when I plugged it in. > >This is the relevant section of xorg.conf. As I said, I didn't do anything to >it when I changed mouses. > >Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" >EndSection > > >Is there something that I should change to fix this? It works fine 99+% >of the time but every so often the mouse point relocates itself. I haven't >noticed it actually move; it's just suddenly not where it was before. I see that this your first optical mouse. Try not to move it fast. Setting its sensitivity up high, so that only a little movement will move the mouse cursor a long way, is the best way to use optical mice. I myself use a steel ball mouse, with low sensitivity, for ease of positioning and less wrist flexing. Optical mice have a small 17x17 pixel camera in them and do the MPEG motion-compensation thing to detect motion. If the mouse moves too far between frames the images won't overlap and it will just end up guessing. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
