[ale] OLPC.. Wow.

[Charles Shapiro]

I think it's only open if you disable the on-board security.  I'm achin' to
try that out. Tomorrow I'm gonna find a coffee shop with wifi to hook up and
send my request in.

Today I figured out a way to reverse the trackpad buttons, which makes Sugar
a whole lot easier for me to use. I added an xmodmap(1) command to the
.xsession file in /usr/olpc as:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32"

Apparently the X configured mouse has 32 buttons. I tried the example
xmodmap(1) command in the man page which allegedly reverses the mouse
buttons, but that disabled pointer clicks completely.    Fortunately it's
basically Fedora, so I could <ctrl><alt><f3> to view the X startup logs  I
could also get to a console prompt and fix X after I destroyed my ability to
use the mouse in the GUI. Then I figured out you could just execute the
xmodmap(1) command from a terminal window and it would affect your session
immediately. Fun times. I  added this tip to the OLPC wiki support FAQ,
since nobody else on the web seems to have tried this before me.

-- CHS

On 1/5/08, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>
> Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > this thing and worries about having it turn into a brick.  Plus, once
> it's
> > developer-keyed, you can apparently get to a khoul little mini-FORTH
> > interpreter inside the thing. Is that neat or what?
> >
>
> Open Firmware, perchance?
>
> -- JK
>
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