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Re: Keyboard-free Twiddling (driver help)

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              writes:
>
>I used a DOS Twiddler driver at first, but
>experienced an even more annoying side-effect
>that my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-505G) kept going
>into screen-saver mode, even if I was actively
>Twiddling away.  The worst part of this is that
>I would have to touch the Vaio's touchpad to
>get the thing to snap out of it.  Apparently the
>DOS driver doesn't interact with whatever is
>checking for keyboard/mouse activity.

The same thing goes for the Linux driver.  My solution
was to disable the screen saver entirely (Control Panel->
Display->Screen Saver->None for Windows, a small hack to
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/console.c for Linux).  Perhaps
the Twiddler II will handle this better, since it hooks to
the keypoard and mouse ports directly.

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