Broken Touchpads, MouseKeys, and xkb->ctrls->mk_max_speed.

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:05:51AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > 
>  > We can use Xkb/AccessX's "MouseKeys" accessibility feature to provide an
>  > easy work-around for many of our touchpad problems. MouseKeys is easy to
> 
> hi michael -- nice work.  have you seen this thread on olpcnews?
>     http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1996.msg16070#msg16070
> 
> someone did a lot of similar work to enable using those keys as mouse
> when the laptop is in tablet mode (to regain a pointing device in that
> mode).  i haven't looked at it closely, but it might be worth
> taking a look at if you haven't.
> 
> paul

Paul,

I was unaware of that superior prior work; thanks for pointing it out!
Would someone with a jumpy touchpad be willing to try it out so we can
have better information about whether it leads to a usable work-around?
(If so, then we can start looking closely at how to merge it.)

Michael