Re: touchpads in Linux
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:47:21PM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>
>
> > I'm trying to find a good touchpad (as a standalone device)
> > to use with Linux in the place of a regular mouse.
> > [SNIP]
>
>
> I've been using a Cirque Easy Cat with Linux all this century &
> hope to never again touch a mouse.
>
> Why? Because I'd traced severe tendon pain in my upper right
> arm to motion dictated by the space available for a mouse pad.
>
> The Easy Cat (the smallest touchpad I could find) works on
> any horizontal surface 3.25 inches by 2.5 -- even on my knee.
>
> However, at first a fellow at Cirque discouraged me. The
> company's Web site proclaimed that its touchpads were `for
> Windows', so I enquired: What about Linux? Linux nix, he
> said. But why? No demand, replied the lout, & therefore no
> plans to adapt -- then or ever.
>
> Subsequent discussion in linux-list@ssc.com reached the lout's
> boss, who firmly disavowed bias against Linux. Just then two
> late-comers to the discussion asked why all the fuss; just plug
> in a Cirque, they told me, & away you go. Right they were,
> too.
>
> Wendell Cochran
> West Seattle
>
>
> --
>
//
nice.
i love happy endings.
kthxbye.
b.
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