[solved]How to make mouse changes "stick"?

Atreides · 2009-12-14 23:42:21

I use a thinkpad with the little red nipple in the middle, and I haven't been able to find a way to permanently increase the sensitivity. Changes within the gui have no effect, but upon googling I did find another thread where somebody changed the settings with this:

echo -n 250 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/sensitivity
echo -n 160 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/speed
echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/press_to_select
echo -n 4 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/upthresh

I put these into the console, and they are almost perfect for me. The only problem is, once I reboot the trackpoing reverts back to its snail like crawl. How would I be able to make the above changes permanent?

Last edited by Atreides (2009-12-15 03:52:27)

Misfit138 · 2009-12-15 00:24:34

Can't you just stick them in /etc/sysctl.conf ?

Atreides · 2009-12-15 01:42:17

Misfit138 wrote:

Can't you just stick them in /etc/sysctl.conf ?

How would I put them in there? Just copy and paste like they are here?

ataraxia · 2009-12-15 02:45:31

You can copy and paste them as they are into /etc/rc.local.

Atreides · 2009-12-15 03:52:12

ataraxia wrote:

You can copy and paste them as they are into /etc/rc.local.

Worked like a charm, thank you

Arch Linux

#1 2009-12-14 23:42:21

[solved]How to make mouse changes "stick"?

#2 2009-12-15 00:24:34

Re: [solved]How to make mouse changes "stick"?

#3 2009-12-15 01:42:17

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#4 2009-12-15 02:45:31

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#5 2009-12-15 03:52:12

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