Cut mouse polling rate in half

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 01:15 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I recently bought a nice new mouse, but it's polling rate is way to
> high. Is there a way to discard half the mouse's polling so that it
> doesn't run the pointer off the screen? I am not talking about mouse
> pointer acceleration, but actually lowering the polling rate or
> discarding a percentage of it.

The mouse doesn't poll (or at least I didn't think it did!). It sends
deltas whenever it feels like doing so, and the mouse driver maintains
pointer position and button state information for higher layers.

You say it's not the mouse acceleration etc, but "running off the
screen" sounds like exactly that. 

On the other hand, it is twenty years since I wrote my last mouse driver
and I may well have no clue :-)

Regards, K.

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