How To Change Mouse DPI setting in ubuntu 11.10

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antsrealm
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How To Change Mouse DPI setting in ubuntu 11.10

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Hi,

Can someone please tell me how to change the mouse DPI settings please.

Thanks.
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Sadly there is no generic way to do this as all mouse manufacturers make proprietary tools to change this setting.

What's your mouse?
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Re: How To Change Mouse DPI setting in ubuntu 11.10

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Well I haven't purchased it yet but I am about to in then next hour.

I was looking at the cmstorm Sentinel with a 5700 DPI

** I am since looking at the g500 from logitech as I see you suggest it in the FAQ. Next question is how do I set the DPI for this mouse in ubuntu???

Please advise if this is a good choice or not, if you reply quick enough I may be able to get a different mouse.

In the mean time I'm using a shitty logitech G3 to muck around with.

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Ok. So I bought the G500 today and set the dpi in windows to the three memory slots and rebooted into linux and it seems ok. Currently I have the mouse polling rate set to 2 (250hz) should I bump this up? I went to change it again using gksudo gedit /etc/modules and now it won't let me save for some reason so I have just left it at 250hz for now. I'm using a live USB with persistent changes.

The movement of the mouse seems decent but it's not good enough for me to justify changing away from the controller. I still have slit jerkiness that is deterring me. Could this be due to my polling rate ?

I am playing battlefield three using the bad company two config with some minor changes.

It's very close but not quite right.

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Regarding BF3, read the additional notes part here: [config] Battlefield 3
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250Hz should be fine. The default 500Hz is also fine.
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