🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello there,
we have a 4D-220VGX equipped with a spaceball. Under 3.x there was a program
called spaceballd that handled that device. You also could use the
spaceball as a mouse (i.e. move the mouse cursor using the spaceball) and
do such things as calibrating it and so on.

After having installed 4.0 (currently 4.0.5) emulating the mouse doesn't
work anymore. However, that is merely annoying. My question is why I find the 
following messages in SYSLOG:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: data event with unknown format.
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: 
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: 
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: unexpected byte 0xA3 in packed mode
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: 
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: 
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: Bad length for data event (0 words)
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: 

They seem to occur every time I use the spaceball (from a locally written
application that uses the spaceball since 3.X days). Has the format of
spaceball events changed ?
I also noticed that there is a rather long delay (1-2 sec) between moving
the spaceball and seeing the result on screen. That was not the case
under 3.X
Thanks for any hints,

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   Rainer Kleinrensing,    rainer@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
   Institute for Applied Mathematics
   Freiburg University