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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The REAL reason the mouse is jerkey!
Summary: Start disassembling!
Keywords: ADB Mouse
Message-ID: <1449@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:41:44 GMT
Expires: 25 Aug 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <4254@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
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Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <4254@ogccse.ogc.edu> afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster) writes:
>[stuff about why the cursor jumps all over with ADB mice and why]
>OK, so what is the fix?  Simple.  Patch the ADB drivers for the mouse device
>so that if the mouse has moved more than a threshold value since the last time
>it was read, then ignore it.  This will make the mouse behave exactly like the
>old mac plus mouse.  Some experimenting would be in order to see exactly
>what should happen.
>This works. (I have done the mod on my machine...) but I cannot find the
>patch.  If there is demand for it I can always disassemble my resources
>and find out what I did!

Start dissassembling (consider this a 'demand').  I too prefer the way the
pre-ADB mouse/cursor worked, and I'm sure there are a few more of us out
there.

I would appreciate it if this patch could be e-mailed to me, and I'm sure
other people on the net would like to see it too, so maybe the patch could
be posted here.

Anxiously awaiting my 'slow' mouse!

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
(612) 638-7668              CNG Development               2700 N. Snelling Ave.
pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM                               Roseville, MN  55113
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