Re: synaptics / alps touchpad

• To: Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: synaptics / alps touchpad
• From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: 20 Apr 2005 15:59:28 -0300
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On Mar 31, 2005, Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does the latest FC3 kernel (770_FC3) have the necessary patches to
> work with a synaptics touchpad?

A synaptics touchpad, yes.  An ALPS touchpad, no.  The 2.6.10 series
still doesn't support the latter, only 2.6.11 does.

You can still use an ALPS touchpad with plain PS/2 emulation, but then
you lose all of the nice touchpad features related with scrolling.

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