mouse sensitivity control issues

[spaceBARbarian]

I am using ubuntu 9.04 fully updated, previously used 8.10. The machine is a DELL Inspiron 9300 laptop.

With both of these releases I have never been able to control the sensitivity of any USB mouse. My main mouse is a Razer Diamondback, a USB optical mouse. The mouse is detected fine and the left, right and scroll buttons work flawlessly. However, the sensitivity is insanely high, even if I decrease the acceleration and sensitivity settings in System > Preferences > Mouse.
The sensitivity slider has no effect at all, decreasing the acceleration makes the mouse slightly slower, but not nearly enough.

Also the mouse is detected with 32 buttons instead of the 7 it actually has ( according to "xinput list")

I have also tried variants of the "xset m" command (like "xset m 0 0") but found even with the lowest settings the sensitivity is really high making the mouse really irritating to use, especially for image editing.

I know a lot of other people have pointed out that the gnome mouse properties has no effect, but most of them are able to fix their issues using xset, but for me it is not lowering the sensitivity enough

My touchpad on the other hand runs fine, accurate and proper sensitivity.

Is there anything else I can do to make the mouse less sensitive?

[spaceBARbarian]

okay so i read about .fdi files and i am trying to mess around with sensitivity and resolution settings though these. I have tried the following two setups:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Sensitivity" type="int">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Resolution" type="int">800</merge>
    </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

The above has no effect on sensitivity, but the new settings do show in the "lshal" output.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">mouse</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Sensitivity" type="int">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Resolution" type="int">800</merge>
    </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

I tried this after reading a forum post about .fdi files (changed x11_driver to "mouse"), it freezes my pointer until i unplug the mouse, how fun

Any idea how I should set up this .fdi file ?

[spaceBARbarian]

Can someone please help me out with this, i've tried these steps with two difference mice, but I cant seem to get the speed of the mouse any lower, its really frustrating.

[jmtdstoc]

I have the same problem. Mouse sensitivity is WAY TOO high on 9.04.
Until 8.10 I could use my mouse just fine if I reduced to the minimum the "Acceleration" and "Sensitivity" sliders.
On 9.04 the "Sensitivity" slider does not work and I get a mouse that's too fast to be usable.

I have a Genius XSCROLL 800dpi USB mouse. If I plug in a Microsoft Wheel mouse it works fine. So, i'm wondering if this just happens whith mouses above 400dpi!!!

Kubuntu 9.04 RC and Fedora 11 Beta also have the mouse TOO FAST, so this must be an issue with the new version of X (1.6.0).

[GackY2K]

Same problem here...I've tried a few mice, but after upgrading to 9.04 my mouse, even set on the slowest speed, is well to fast and extremely hard to use.

Please someone help us!

[MeanEYE]

In the 8.10 xset m 1/3 1 worked fine. Now even this doesnt work for me... tho my mouse works just a slightly faster than I am used to... still it's irritating that I can not change mouse speed :/

[Fnyar]

I was having the same problem under 9.04 except my mouse speed was too SLOW. Then, I noticed that it looks like the slider for sensitivity is inverted. This is probably a bug in gnome-control-center.

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gnome-mouse-properties
gnome-control-center: /usr/bin/gnome-mouse-properties

[nilezon]

I'm having a Razer Copperhead, set to 2000 DPI and 1000mhz report rate.
It's almost unusable because of the high mouse speed.

[levimendes]

Razer DeathAdder here. Both acceleration and sensitivity are set to slow and low, still too fast...

[babuz']

Put into your /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the InputDevice section for mouse:

Option "ConstantDeceleration" "3"

for more info see here
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69851
and here
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Do...d3e434190b732d

cheers