mouse accel rate issue

[dep]

greets.

my beloved kensington trackball appears to have given up the ghost; it 
was a serial version whose cable i thought had gone screwy, but a new 
one (which kensington, btw, sent free of charge even though the 
trackball is about seven years old -- good company, imho) did not fix 
it and i don't know that i'll be able to do all the tracing to fix 
the scewey connection in the circuit itself.

so i got a whole new one, same model only now it's usb/ps2 instead of 
serial. which is no big deal (though i think the old one was made a 
little better) except that mouse acceleration both in gdm and kde are 
now all screwy. yeah, i reconfigured for a ps2 instead of serial 
mouse.

thing is, with the serial mouse movement per unit of trackball travel 
was about three times what it is with the ps2 version. i can speed 
things up somewhat, through the cli option in gdm and the preferences 
panel in kde, but both of these want it to begin very slowly and then 
speed up, while i'd just as soon the speed be consistent -- and 
faster -- throughout.

i suspect that there is a nice configuration file someplace i can 
crack open and edit, but i'm damned if i can find it for either gdm 
or kde. anybody know?

thanks.
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