On Tuesday 25 February 2003 21:12 pm, dep wrote: > 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. >
I assume you now have an Expert Mouse Pro.... What kernel are you running? I first installed a Pro on 2.4.18 and it was rather jerky and I didn't like it at all... whereas an older EMouse worked just fine. So I went back to the older Version 5.0 But just this afternoon I decided to give the Pro another try. I'm also now running 2.4.20 and the Pro is as smooth as the V5 was and I really like it. Wheel works well too but I'm not sure I'm going to get the hang of using it. I think there might have been some changes for the wheel-mice in the later kernels. Just my $.02 > 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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 02/25/03 21:27 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "All the brave men are in prison. -- Russian proverb" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
