Re: touchpad busted on 2.6 Dell Insp 4k

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:12 am, Justin Pryzby wrote:
----> Does anyone else find touchpad support to be broken using Debian's 2.6
----> kernels?  I know about psmouse.proto=imps, but I'm really getting
----> quite tired of it.  It doesn't seem to work on Debian kernels 2.6.8
----> and 2.6.14, and I wonder if I just hacked the touchpad driver in my
----> 2.6.11.1 to Work For Me.
---->
----> I'm using a Dull Insp 4k, and the mouse tends to have trouble
----> "zeropointing"; so it has a continual need to move in one direction or
----> another.  Besides that, click+drag is broken.  I really don't care
----> about palm detection or any of this, I would really like to be able to
----> make use of my window system, though.
---->
----> Please Cc me, thanks.
---->
----> --
----> Clear skies,
----> Justin
---->

Got this assistance from this list for my Acer, which I thought wouldn't work 
the tap with 2.6.xxx kernels. I had to tweak a few things in the <Section 
"InputDevice">  to make it work nicely though.

Obviously install synaptics driver.

In in XF86Config:

Section "Module"
 ...
        Load    "synaptics"
>>>

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"

>>

Section "ServerLayout"
 ...
        InputDevice     "Touchpad"

Worked a treat......... don't know about Dell though?

You will find the post that helped me in the archives I'm certain, but am 
unable to attribute it, because I have shamefully forgotten the persons name. 
Go back about 3 months I think from memory.
HTH as it did me.

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