Re: spaceballs...
Coming into this discussion a bit late...
We (my work) also refer to these devices as SpaceBalls as they used to
have a ball, and every axis is controlled by a strain gage. The
original ones were serial but my current HP SpacePilot is USB based
and has a knob instead of a ball.
I would be willing to test if anyone would like (Shhh... Don't tell
anyone, I dual boot my work laptop to Fedora :) I saw some references
to xevent or xev.
Thanks,
Richard