Re: [driver] New life for Serial mice

Pavel Machek
2001-06-08T15:51:14Z

Hi!
>
> If you still have your 3-button MouseSystems (or any other serial) mouse
> somewhere in your driver, forgotten becase of the incredibly slow update
> rate causing so much jumping of the pointer on the screen that it is
> unusable, you may want to pull it out and give it a try.
>
> Or if you're still using it with some old 486 computer, this driver is
> for you.
>
> What it does is that it enhances the update rate from 24 (with current
> GPM and X drivers) to 96. This is almost what the best USB mice do.

What's the "prediction" stuff? Does it mean you are guessing some values
by interpolation? [If so, what kind of update rate would it do on USB?]
Pavel

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