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ARM Installation
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Its for all desktop environments in the RPi, even the calamares installer environment.

Seems to be an issue for wireless USB mouse/keyboard combinations.

More info
https://elinux.org/RPi_cmdline.txt

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mouse_polling_rate#Set_polling_interval

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That is why I havenā€™t noticed this problem, I have wired USB keyboard and mouse.

If this does not affect USB wired or BlueTooth keyboards and mice, we need to put this in.
We donā€™t want to fix a problem for one group and create a problem for another group.

Let me add this to the cmdline.txt on my RPi 4b KDE with USB wired mouse and see what happens

Pudge

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I tried this with usbhid.mousepoll=6 and usbhid.mousepoll=8.
I did not see any noticeable difference in mouse smoothness, but I didnā€™t have a problem with that to start with.

I did see a difference in mouse speed. At 6 I had to slow down the mouse, and shown here with 8 I had to speed up the mouse.

mousey

Shown above is with 8.
With 6 I had to go one click to the left past the middle setting.

I also have a gaming mouse on the RPi 4. I am not a gamer and it is a long story, donā€™t ask. The point being, there is a little button right behind the scroll wheel that changes the DPI I think they called it, and that really changes the mouse speed. So there are a lot of variables here.

I donā€™t know of anyone who uses a bluetooth keyboard & mouse to get feedback for bluetooth,

From what I can see, change it if it helps some people,

EDIT:
For now, only change it for RPi 4 stuff and leave Odroid N2 as is until further investigation.

Pudge

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I guess i would have to experiment. Right now Iā€™m just kind of getting to understand how to make it Arm work on this Pi 400. Iā€™m getting same on sd card and ssd on kde. I think the cursor acceleration is too fast? Not sure. It doesnā€™t seem to move or follow correctly.

Edit: When i get set up better Iā€™ll reinstall KDE again. Iā€™ve been trying different Arm images.

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Did you try to adjust the mouse speed in Settings as shown above?

Pudge

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No i havenā€™t but i will once i try kde again. Xfce is perfect.

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MATE works really well for me on the Pi

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I think Mate would be good and also Budgie maybe?

Edit: I want to set this up better with the Pi 400 connected to my monitor on the table.

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My fav is MATE and @Pudgeā€™s is Budgie among gtk DEs

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Budgie runs really well on the RPi 4 and USB SSD. I really like the optional AppMenu as shown in Post 54 of this Topic. It has a similar graphic presentation of the APPS like gnome, but the screen isnā€™t shifting size, and other distracting presentation.

The only thing I miss with Budgie, is Dolphin, Konsole, and especially KATE.

Pudge

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sudo pacman -S dolphin konsole kate

:chart_with_upwards_trend:

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This can easily be done with a printf statement
printf ā€œusbhid.mousepoll=8\nā€ >> /boot/cmdline.txt

Pudge

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Go ahead if you are find with implementing it.

I would appreciate it if its there in Rpi installs.

We donā€™t need it for odroid. The same USB mouse/keyboard works normally

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FYI I replaced the gaming mouse with a cheap $8 ONN wired mouse from Wal-Mart.
It works fine also with your usbhid.mousepoll=8 setting. So I donā€™t see it hurting anything.

I will fix this now. I want to start with 8 as the first URL suggested.
I canā€™t test this. You can play around with it and if 8 works good, great. If not we can go to 6.

Pudge

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Itā€™s seems 8 works for @lxnauta too, letā€™s go with that. I can change mine to 6 if I want to.

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Fixed and pushed to github.

Pudge

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Sounds great!
Congrats on a successful install and boot.
Enjoy your :pie:

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Iā€™ve had only bad experiences with Kingston usb sticks on linux, had to return all of them. Will never buy Kingston again.

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Ive never had an issue with using this drive except now on the pi 400. I have a WD 500 GB ssd in another computer. Iā€™ll swap it out and see if it makes any difference when i get the time. I havenā€™t been able to get the pi 400 to boot on any usb jump sticks either. Using the kernel parameter has worked on the ssd drive but i havenā€™t been able to set one up on a usb stick. Trying to load the arm image from booting on a usb stick to another usb stick doesnā€™t work well.

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I find I need 7 now, 8 feels a bit laggy :~) But Iā€™m used to put this in the config for every lasting install.