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 http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
