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Any way to increase mouse tracking speed other than the regular System applet?
Martin Iturbide:
Hi.
--- Quote from: RTAN on August 31, 2024, 03:21:33 pm ---Unfortunately the USV mouse would not work - in fact the USB light on the mouse didn't even come on. I know the USB ports work (well, at least the power part!) because I also have connected a pair of speakers which have a 3.5mm jack for the audio but take power from a USB socket.
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Do you have USBMOUSE.SYS on your config.sys ?
- https://hobbesarchive.com/?detail=/pub/os2/system/drivers/mouse/IBM_USBMouse_10-57.zip
But it is a bad syndrome that the USB light of the mouse does not turn on. But maybe you just can give it try to see what happens.
Regards
Andrew Stephenson:
A long shot... I suppose you've checked the mouse is free of dirt around the ball? When a mouse has started behaving weirdly here, it has usually been a case of popping the ball and cleaning the socket. Gunk can build up surprisingly fast. Of course, your mileage may differ. 8)
RTAN:
Sorry Martin, I've wiped that installation now (rather than trying to "undo" the USB drivers) but I'll go back to it at a future date and update this posting if things change.
And thanks Andrew, I did check the ball and rollers - it was a brand new device so maybe the lubrication on the rollers has also dried up slightly (i.e. preventing them from rotating so smoothly). That would definitely explain how it sticks and pauses, but I think that in general it's just a dpi mismatch.
Best,
Richard.
RTAN:
--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on September 01, 2024, 12:38:56 am ---Do you have USBMOUSE.SYS on your config.sys ?
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Hi Martin,
Well my curiosity got the better of me and I went back and tried this :-)
Thanks for the second link to the IBM USB Mouse drivers - I didn't have those. I installed those, verified that usbmouse.sys was in my config.sys, and rebooted.
This time the mouse lit-up and I could see it move on screen - hooray!
Well... not quite. Unfortunately the pointer would only move up and down, it would not move left or right!
Perhaps with more tinkering I could get it to work but I think I'll keep trying to track down a new-in-box optical IntelliMouse (PS/2 connection) :-)
Thanks anyway for the tip - I really appreciate it!
Best,
Richard.
CalYY:
Forget about changing mouse drivers, all OS/2 ones are slow. Put this in startup.cmd:
d:\program\mouspeed 4 2 7 4
you can adjust the numbers for speed, acceleration
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