touchpad and keyboard

[ieuuk]

hi, i have a toshiba laptop running fedora core 3 and i have 2 main probelms with using it.

1) is that the touchpad is so sensitive to move even though i have gone to the mouse options and slowed it down as much as it will go, is there a way to slow it down more?

2) is that sometimes it doesnt always type straight away from the keyboard... like it will miss the first few letters that you are typing untill you have got going and then it will be fine. is there a way around this?

thanks...

[mike]

You need to add psmouse.rate=40 to the kernel line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf so it looks something like this. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet psmouse.rate=40

Mike

[AlaskaLass]

I had a similar problem with my touchpad on my laptop after installing F3. I did not also notice a keyboard delay, but I did notice programs were loading much slower than with my previous distro (RedHat9).

I found the problem in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. The kernel was loading with "ide=nodma". When I was perfoming the F3 install, I had to turn off dma to use the CDs with my driver. The install picked up this setting, and I didn't notice it until later.

The skittery touchpad and the slow program loads disappeared when I took out the nodma phrase.

Original line in grub.conf:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL/ ide=nodma rhgb quiet

Line after I changed it:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL/ rhgb quiet

[ieuuk]

cool - thanks for that... i'll give it a try