[freespace2] mouse and brightness problems

[Janis Pusmucans]

> I jut got annoyed to the mouse sensitivity behavior. Even when it has 
> been set to maximum, mouse movement is very sluggush making the game 
> practically unplayable. I ran some tests and tried to change movement 
> factor in file playerman/playercontrol.cpp and function 
> playercontrol_read_stick but did not manage to do anything useful. In my 
> case the factor variable seems to get constant value with maximum mouse 
> sensitivity (=9). In this case factor=23786.0. Forcing the calculated 
> factor bigger, the ship movement breaks completely and forcing it 
> smaller makes the movement even more sluggish. Does anyone have an idea 
> how this should be corrected?
imho in linux it's a bit better, though not ideal aswell. as temporary
workaround do as i did - combine keyboard && mouse for turning. just
needs rebind as it's not too easy with default bindings.
> Another question is about brightness setting. Is it supposed to work? It 
> does absolutey nothing for me.
mhmm, just a guess, maybe drivers/directx issue?