Re: Setting mouse acceleration and threshold in xorg.conf

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 5 May 2012 22:27:05 +0200
Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:26:25PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 May 2012 21:47:20 +0200
> > Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:44:30AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > > > Hi I have recent Xorg installed from pkgsrc on NetBSD-6.0 Beta
> > > > amd64.
> > > > 
> > > > xset m 6 2
> > > > 
> > > > gives me the required mouse acceleration and threshold that I
> > > > need.
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to make it permanent via xorg.conf file. However
> > > > the following options don't seem to work:
> > > > 
> > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> > > >         Driver      "mouse"
> > > >         Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"
> > > >         Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
> > > >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> > > >         Option      "AccelerationNumerator" "6"
> > > >         Option      "AccelerationDenominator" "1"
> > > >         Option      "AccelerationThreshold" "2"
> > > > EndSection
> > > > 
> > > > Anybody knows of suitable options for for xorg.conf that I could
> > > > try??
> > > 
> > > What does xinput say? (xinput list)
> > 
> > I don't have xinput, is this part of some X11 utils package that
> > needs to be install separately?
> 
> x11/xinput?

$ xinput list
"Virtual core pointer"  id=0    [XPointer]
"Virtual core keyboard" id=1    [XKeyboard]
"Mouse0"        id=2    [XExtensionPointer]
"Keyboard0"     id=3    [XExtensionKeyboard]

Not quite sure what those "Virtual" devices are for.