Bug#92648: RFP: MAcc - A PS/2 mouse acceleration repeater
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
On 02-Apr-2001 Tony Mantler wrote:
> I'm assuming this is the right address to send this to, please correct me
> if I am in error.
>
> I've written some software that could use debianizing, and I'd like to
> encourage some kind package maintainer out there to package it. It can be
> obtained from <http://www.apia.dhs.org/software/macc/>.
>
> Anyways, the story:
>
> I hate mouse acceleration under linux, mostly because there pretty much is
> none, and what is there is disgustingly linear and imprecise and not even
> worthy of the term 'acceleration'.
>
> So, I fixed it.
>
> Through the wonders of mathemagic, my program (MAcc), reads in mouse data
> in ps/2 or imps/2 format, accelerates it in a delightfully smooth and
> precise non-linear fasion, and then spits it back out again to a fifo for
> reading by (for example) an X server.
>
> This allows you to both split pixels at low mouse velocities, and at the
> same time lets you zip across even the largest screen without needing a
> 4-foot mousepad (It works great with trackballs too). Cool, huh? 8)
>
>
> It's been tested to function on both PowerPC and ix86.
>
>
> Anyways...
>
> Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
>
>
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