Slow mouse in Puppy 5 (solved)

[Newcrest]

I use a pointing stick (a.k.a. trackstick, trackpoint) rather than a touchpad and it is very heavy and sluggish in Puppy 5. The normal adjustments like with PupX or xset have no effect whatsoever.

I am sure I read a proposed solution to this but I can't seem to find it. The suggestion was to download a pet (maybe from Quickpet). I tried the Xorg pet but either it was the wrong one or the suggestion didn't work because mouse is still slow.

Is there anything I can do? I note that Ubuntu/Mint have exactly the same problem for me.

[Béèm]

I have an IBM thinkpad R40 with track point and have no problem using it.
Maybe it is of help, this is what I have in xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	#Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
	#Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection

[Newcrest]

Thanks Beem, those settings are actually exactly what I had. I never had this slow mouse problem with older Puppy versions or with Wary.

This seems to be a problem with Lupu where I cannot adjust the mouse using PupX or xset or xinput. Any change to values there are simply ignored.

I tried a number of other things but the following terminal command worked:

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echo -n 255 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/serio5/sensitivity 

The range is 1 to 255 so I needed to go right to the top of the range but it works well now

[Béèm]

Great.
And thanks for the [SOLVED]