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[Tom <question76340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76340 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76340

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, i'll try to re-write ActionParsnips advice but hopefully with more
directions :)  It's really late here so i will have to leave it here but
will try to be back in sometime tomorrow although i don't really
understand any of this now.  Firstly go up to the top taskbar and click
on

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

and into the terminal/command window/console type in (or copy & paste
with the mouse)

cd /etc/X11
ls
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.080709
ls
gksudo gedit xorg.conf

Note that sudo will want your normal user password, not your
SuperUser/Root one.  The "ls" is a lower-case "LS" and shows a LiSt of
what's in the folder, "dir" also works but isn't colour-coded. The "cp"
should create a CoPy of the xorg.conf, just in case we make a mistake
and need this one back again ;)  Gedit is a good text-editor although
there are many others such as "vim", vim is good on a command-line that
doesn't have a gui desktop available, eg on servers or in recovery mode.
Anyway inside xorg.conf look for

    Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0"

and add

        Option "Resolution" "500"

into that section, possibly nearer the end of the section but i think it doesn't make much difference exactly where as long as it just go into a sub-section by mistake.  I think ActionParsnip was saying that you would need 2 lines like that but give the 2nd one a different value.  Sorry i haven't read the link he gave so i'm not really sure about any of this :(  Hopefully someone else will pop in and give more help sometime later
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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