Re: Synaptics touchpad on a Dell Inspiron 2500

[joerg.mensmann@gmx.de (Jörg Mensmann)]

Hi!

Derek Broughton <dbroughton@attcanada.ca> wrote:
> However, I can't get the touchpad to work very well.  It's configured as
> a gpm mouse using synps2, but I _must_ define the PS/2 mouse as
> "CorePointer" and have it attached before starting X. If I don't the
> touchpad is unusable.  If I detach the PS/2 mouse after X starts, the
> touchpad is activated (mostly) but has a bad habit of moving the pointer
> to the upper right corner of the screen and sending random clicks.  I
> have also tried with the Touchpad protocol set to "MouseSystems" which
> was slightly less useful.

I had similar problems with my Inspiron 4000 but got it to work with the
following config:

,----[ /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ]
| Section "InputDevice"
|         Identifier    "Mouse0"
|         Driver	"mouse"
|         Option	"Protocol"		"MouseSystems"
|         Option	"Device"		"/dev/gpmdata"
|         Option	"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
| EndSection
`----

,----[ /etc/gpm.conf ]
| device=/dev/psaux
| repeat_type=msc
| type=synps2
`----

ciao
  Jörg