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   1 # evhz
   2
   3 Display the current mouse refresh rate under linux with evdev
   4
   5 For information about polling rate, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_Polling_Rate
   6
   7 The program is just evhz.c. Compile and run:
   8
   9     gcc -o evhz evhz.c
  10     sudo ./evhz
  11
  12 Nonverbose mode = -n
  13
  14 There exists a kernel bug for USB ports which use the uhci_hcd driver,
  15 where a 1000 hz mouse will only read at 500hz, causing jittering:
  16 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60586. A workaround is to
  17 use USB ports that use the ehci-pci driver.
  18
  19 Maintainer: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
  20
  21 Bugs, patches, requests, feedback are welcome.
  22
  23 Last tested 7/2016 on Debian testing. Still working great after several
  24 years.