mouse accel rate issue

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:29 pm, dep wrote:
> 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.

I use Kensington Expert Meese on about 6 diff computers and they all work 
fine.  (just hooked up a Pro today)  They are all PS/2 style.

I assume your's is a Version 5.0  but all you should need to do is play 
with the control center --> peripherals --> mice  and change the 
settings.

Mine is currently set to:

Pointer accel =  7x
Pointer Thresh =  1 pixel

And it seems to do what you say you want.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         02/25/03 
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