Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
