mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

[dep]

bruce and kurt -- thanks.

i took a short cut that roberto alsina suggested, which was to goose 
up the option "resolution" line (which involved creating the line 
first) in XF86Config. it doesn't fix the gdm problem, but if i turned 
gdm off i wouldn't miss it, so that's not a huge concern, except that 
with the defaults it takes one complete revolution of the ball to 
move half a line, which isn't tremendously efficient and which is 
irritating to look at.

what i can't figure out is why my serial trackball -- yup, an expert 
mouse which in my estimation is the absolute best, and i wish 
somebody made a keyboard of equivalent quality -- behaved so very 
differently from the ps2 version. the circuit boards seem different, 
too, and the ps2 one has a much thinner, non-detachable cable, unlike 
the serial version. also, the new one doesn't seem quite as smooth as 
the old one.

speaking of which: kensington's mouseworks software is available for 
osx; i wonder if there's a way to crowbar it onto a linux install. 
probly not.
-- 
dep

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