acidream Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I just got a usb kvm switch so I could share a keyboard and mouse with my other machine. Both detect and function fine, but I have to crank the tracking speed up to the maximum in the preferences to seem like normal speed in windows. Now when I move the mouse around at normal speed it moves fine, but when I slow down to click on a small link or button it slows way down, so slow that i have to move the mouse two inches to move up about 20 pixels. Is there some other options for mouse acceleration or something else to tweak to try to fix this. It seems like it balances out if I turn down the tracking speed, but then it's just to slow all around. I didn't notice this with a ps2 mouse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10299-microsoft-usb-mouse-acceleration-is-sloooooow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidream Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Ok, I did a little bit more research, and found a little program called USB overdrive, that lets you change the DPI and acceleration to your liking. With a combination of 200 dpi, and 40% acceleration, I think I've got it pretty close to what I'm used to. Just thought I'd share in case anyone else was going crazy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10299-microsoft-usb-mouse-acceleration-is-sloooooow/#findComment-64292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamezes Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 You're lucky. My Logitech USB mouse wont work at all. (Although it did work during installation...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10299-microsoft-usb-mouse-acceleration-is-sloooooow/#findComment-64401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidream Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 thats strange that it would work during the install and not after, I had the opposite problem in 10.4.3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10299-microsoft-usb-mouse-acceleration-is-sloooooow/#findComment-65038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d11wtq Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 You're lucky. My Logitech USB mouse wont work at all. (Although it did work during installation...) Get into a shell as a privileged user (root!). mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleFPMemDriver.kext /var/root/ When you reboot it'll almost certainly work. It's not very fast though but Mac's I've used in the store are the same... they don't respond to very minor movements (probably for Graphics creators) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10299-microsoft-usb-mouse-acceleration-is-sloooooow/#findComment-66503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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