Reverse pointer axes?

[mark]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> Hey, all.  I've got a daughter in college -- she's up in Burlington, VT.
> I've also got a daughter who's not yet in kindergarten.  Needless to say,
> a three-hour car trip with a young 'un can be fairly long (and then back
> again).  Our minivan ha(s|d) a DVD player -- but it's b0rken.  (Probably
> an alignment issue, methinks.)  Anyway, I'm seriously contemplating taking
> a $250 netbook and mounting it upside-down.  Ubuntu has an "upside-down"
> option for its video, so that's no problem.  But not so much the trackpad.
>  Does anyone know of a way to invert the axes for a pointing device?  I've
> Googled a fair bit, but the only thing I found even kinda-sorta close was
> ways to modify one specific track pad driver/kernel module to rotate one
> axis.  If there's a generic X-windows mechanism, that would certainly be
> far more handy.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>


Alternatively, at Best Buy I got a portable DVD player and a softside case
that is designed to strap over the back of one of the front seats for under
$100.  It was well worth the cost for the 12 hour haul I took my kids on a
couple summers back.  The only downside was stopping every couple of hours
to swap the DVD.

mark
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