Bug 146930 - Bad automatic mouse acceleration factor and threshold settings.
Summary: Bad automatic mouse acceleration factor and threshold settings.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-mouse
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Paul Nasrat
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-02 20:30 UTC by Luke Simon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-08-14 18:29:03 UTC
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Description Luke Simon 2005-02-02 20:30:48 UTC
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Description of problem:
I am using a Razor Diamondback mouse, which is a 1600dpi optical
mouse.  Apparently the OS automatically detects the mouse and tries to
automatically set the mouse acceleration factor and threshold. 
However, it sets the factor to 8/10 and the threshold to 2.  Hence
slow, small movements do not cause the mouse cursor to move at all!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. plug in Diamondback mouse
2. boot computer
3. wait until X loads
    

Actual Results:  "xset q" says that the mouse acceleration scaling
factor is 8/10 and the acceleration threshold is 1.  This causes the
mouse to not move for small or slow movements.  Trying using gimp with
those settings!

Expected Results:  For such a high resolution mouse, it is probably
best to just disable acceleration.  There should be a method for
disabling this automatic acceleration setting "feature".

Additional info:

Acceleration was originally created when mice were very low
resolution.  Hence in order to be able to get the cursor from one end
of the screen to the next without having to repeatidly pick up and the
mouse and re-center it on your mouse pad, some kind of movement
scaling was required.

High resolution mice do not need this scaling and hence it should be
disabled when such a mouse is detected, or there should at least be an
option for doing so.  Imagine the automatic settings calculated for a
3200dpi mouse!  A scale factor of 4/10 and a threshold of 1?

I guess a workaround would be to put "xset 1 255" (is this the best
way to disale mouse acceleration?) in some startup script, but that
seems like a hack.  There should be a method for disabling automatic
acceleration configuration, and instead use whatever settings are
saved in an appropriate file, such as "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2005-02-08 02:05:57 UTC
This is more of a configuration issue than a bug in xorg-x11.

Reassigning to system-config-mouse as a feature request for
consideration in future OS releases.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 21:24:40 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2006-08-14 18:29:03 UTC
system-config-mouse is no longer shipped.  If this is still an issue with FC6,
please refile against xorg as we now do automatic configuration.


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