On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Jim Cornette wrote: > Trevor Smith wrote: > > I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows > > double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side > > (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll > > wheel. > > > > These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they > > worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with > > FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I > > modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2? > > > > Try adding psmouse.proto=imps to the end of your boot line. It works for > my synaptics touchpad on an HP laptop. > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on psmouse.proto=imps > > Is the line that you add it to. When you start your computer again, it > might work. This restores tapping on the touchpad, but it does have some drawbacks. For example, on my Thinkpad it disables the pinting stick and the associated buttons. > Others had no luck with this method and installed the synaptics rpm and > adjusted their xorg.conf file. I had no luck with ths approach though. > The archives should have this subject under synaptics. For FC2, you can grab the synaptics-0.13.5-5 (or latest) RPM from the Fedora development tree (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/. That not only enables tapping, but scrolling and other features as well. Highly configurable. > > Jim > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
