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Re: how can I get my laptop mouse pad working



subscriptions@rdegraaf.nl wrote:

Hi Hafiez,


On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:10:24 -0700 (PDT)
Hafiez Yusof <skarn_83@yahoo.com> wrote:

my touchpad have gone berserk. i cannot make it to click button on 2 clicking, then how can i fix this



I've got this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for my touchpad

------------------------------------------------
Section "InputDevice"
       Driver "synaptics"
       Identifier "touchpad"
...
EndSection

I just managed to get my touchpad to work on my inspiron 8100, and it took fixing both the InputDevice section (except that I found that I could not use Option Protocol auto-dev, apparenlty - but that is just a guess - I'll be happy to send my entire xf86config-4 to anyone who wants it, with the caveat that it may NOT do what you want, and it MIGHT burn out your lcd :-) AND you have to make sure that you've got it set up in the 'Section ServerLayout" section.
In my case I had to make the mouse info look like this:

InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"

where "Mouse2" is 'touchpad' in 'subscription's example above, and
"Configured Mouse" is the original one supplied upon install.

OH! Do NOT forget to "apt-get install xfree86-driver-synaptics" - it MIGHT help a bit too :-)

YMMV, etc, etc.

Hope this helps someone!

rc



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