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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Is there some way other than using accessx to change the meanings of 
various keyboard keys to be mouse movements, such as editing xmodmap's 
argument, which I did to produce an 84-key keyboard?  Of course if I use 
the arrow keys on such a keyboard for mouse movements I won't have any 
other arrow keys, but two people we are supporting use the wider keyboard. 
One has poor aim, the other diabetic (type I) carpal tunnel syndrome so 
bad she has been sent home for two months and told to find a new career 
that does not involve typing, and the keyboard is supposed to be less 
damaging than the mouse for that because you don't need to grip it and can 
move your arm more and your hand less.

accessx appears to change the keyboard mapping but I have not figured out 
the details.

I should try adding accessx to SW10.2 .

Our only computer with full xlib.tgz has the Rage 3D card that does Xvesa 
but not any other X.  I tried with mach64 and xsvga.  Another Rage card 
(rage128) was supposed to work with X-SVGA but, like the S3 Trio cards, it 
produces bar code instead of text.  The mach64 server did not work, and 
Xvesa produces an error message about ROM.  svgalib works with both cards 
(VESA and mach64).  xfbdev works with at least one.

The Trio3D card works with X_SVGA but only at 320 resolution.  We don't 
have any other extra video cards that do framebuffer and a non-Xvesa X. 
Xvesa seems to work better with most newer cards than the other X servers.

If anyone has the time to check out my package accessxkb.tgz on some card 
working with the SVGA or S3 server I would appreciate it.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org