Synaptics touchpad

[DLH]

Double touch (click) and side panel scrolling not active. Any ideas? Compaq Presario 700...

Thanks.

How does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like?

[spectre]

Try this out:

In a terminal window

1. type 'su' and give your root password
2. type ' vi /boot/grub/grub.conf ' (we'll add a line to your bootloader, if you are using grub, that is)
3. add ''psmouse.proto=imps" at the end of the line that starts with: "kernel /vmlinuz ...."
4. exit ( you exit byhitting esc, then typing ":wq" , with the colon )
5. reboot

It might work.

I hope I'm not offending you. I really don't know how much you know about linux.

[DLH]

As a newbie I don't have the privilege of being offended. I appreciate any info I can get. Thanks, I'll check it out.

d

[spectre]

any luck with the touchpad?

[DLH]

Thanks for the follow-up. I've been doing a bit of reading up and have decided to reformat. Slow learner. I'm starting with manually setting the partitions. I also want to inspect BIOS; I think it may need an overhaul. So I want to slowly build from the ground up and see how many bugs I can shake out. Part of the fun. Once I get it set up again, I'll let you know how Synaptics reconfig goes.

Thanks again...

[XJjoe01]

Originally Posted by DLH

Thanks for the follow-up. I've been doing a bit of reading up and have decided to reformat. Slow learner. I'm starting with manually setting the partitions. I also want to inspect BIOS; I think it may need an overhaul. So I want to slowly build from the ground up and see how many bugs I can shake out. Part of the fun. Once I get it set up again, I'll let you know how Synaptics reconfig goes.

Thanks again...

Spectre,

Your fix worked for me. I passed it along.

Thanks again,

Joe