Oneiric mouse sensitivity no (or reversed) effect

[Colin Law]

In Oneiric Beta up to date 4th Oct 2011 in Mouse and Touchpad settings Mouse Pointer Sensitivity seems to do little or nothing, at least when the Acceleration is low. When the accel is high then setting the sensitivity high apparently *reduces* the acceleration.
Using gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 4 15:40:33 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (21 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, to report upstream by somebody who can confirm the issue

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gerv (gerv-launchpad)]

I don't think this is a duplicate. This bug is particularly about the fact that the way to get a fast mouse is to set sensitivity to "low", which is not particularly intuitive. I would expect high sensitivity to correspond to faster, 'jumpier' motions.

Gerv

[Colin Law (colin-law)]

Yes it is a duplicate. The key statement in the description is "Sensitivity seems to do little or nothing", bug #20852 says "the "sensitivity" has no effet whatsoever". If 20852 is fixed then this bug will also be fixed, therefore it is the same bug. Note that a bug is an error in the code. This bug may note additional symptoms but that does not make it a different bug.

[Frank Kafka (drw-frank-52b)]

I'm still having this bug in the 12.04 beta 2, as well as in Oneiric. The mouse sensitivity setting isn't doing anything with either touchpad, mouse, or trackpad (Thinkpad X121e). I therefore have to use acceleration to make it a bit useable, but acceleration is an awful substitute for good speed control.