FC2: Touch-to-click doensn't work any more

[kilrex]

Maybe some of you have heard about or experienced this problem before: Since kernel 2.6x, the touchpad's "touch-to-click" feature doesn't seem to work any more. Appearantly it has something to do with the Synaptics driver - at least that's what I read several times on different sites on the internet.

It would be great if someone could explain how to install and configure this Synaptics thing because I don't know too much about installing drivers...

[Scoob_E]

You may want to check out http://users.telenet.be/ze5500 , IIRC he has a section on his page about configuring a synaptics touchpad... may be of help to you

[kilrex]

Thank you very, very much Scoob_E, I did it!

Not only the touch-to-click feature works perfectly now but also the scroll buttons and that touch-to-scroll feature I never got to work under FC1! You're great I've been searching for this for hours.

And it even was really simple to do (though I'm not a newbie but I never installed a driver myself so far).

Thanks again.
kilrex

[cgriffin]

Would you mind posting the steps you took and perhaps post the relevant section of your XF86Config file?

[|Doc|]

Originally posted by charlie
Would you mind posting the steps you took and perhaps post the relevant section of your XF86Config file?

Charlie, I just about posted the same question, but didn't have the time. I got the driver package downloaded and untared and found that it had a complete set of instructions and all the text that you can copy right into your config file. Worked really well. As you can see I'm running a fairly old laptop and it is working just fine.

So somebody find the guy who maintains the synaptic driver and buy him a beer or something. It may sound silly but I haven't been this happy with a peice of software in a long time.

|Doc|

[ogetbilo]

by the way
this topic's name is displayed as "Touch ... more" on the forumhome page which is funny

[kilrex]

So somebody find the guy who maintains the synaptic driver and buy him a beer or something. It may sound silly but I haven't been this happy with a peice of software in a long time.

That's exactly what I think.

Charlie: Problem solved? |Doc| should have said everything that needs to be said but if you are still having troubles feel free to ask again .

[makarand]

hey,

I use a compaq m2007us laptop with fedora core 3. I am facing a similar problem with the synaptic touchpad. I was reading through the previous posts for the solution, however the url listed is nolonger active. I would highly appreciate it if someone could post the correct url.

Thanks in advance.

Makarand.

[makarand]

this is what i did to get it working.

configuring synaptics touchpad to work with fedora core 3

open grub.conf located at /boot/grub/grub.conf with any text editor.

add "psmouse.proto=imps" to the kernal line.
reboot the comp and the tap feature should work fine.

this is what my grub.conf looks like

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.27_FC3)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet psmouse.proto=imps
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.img

#title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
# initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Win XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Makarand.

[siddhx]

i was facing the problem of losing the touch clicking in certain menus in FC4 . By using the above solution I am able to solve my problem successfully . Thanks a bulk very much.

Rajesh Shah
Siddh Services.