Hi
I have been running a clarkconnect server for a couple months now and thought that i would install fedora on a new laptop I have bought for developing. I have been trying to set this up and can get fedora installed however the touch pad will only work if a usb mouse is also plugged in while the machine is booting. I have made sure that the synaptic driver is installed and also tried it as a generic ps2 mouse. The touch pad works on the windows xp pro os that i am dual booting with. My laptop is an fujitsu-siemens amilo pro 7010. I'm hoping to stick with fedora as a distrobution because that is what my other linux system runs on. does anyone have any suggestions on fixing my problem? if you need me to put any config data on the web let me know and i'll host it at http://31770.pointclark.net
Thank you for your time,
Oliver Mentz
You might backup your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and run system-config-display --reconfig
without the usb mouse attached. The program should set up the synaptics driver for the mouse correctly.
Also, you might add psmouse.resetafter=3 to your grub.conf file to see if it helps out any before trying to reconfigure X.
No idea if these actions will lead to a solution or not. I have not attached a usb mouse to my system. I do have a working synaptics mousepad.
You might run system-config-mouse with X not up ( runlevel 3). I selected a ps2 type of mouse, saved the configuration, then ran system-config-mouse again and selected synaptics and saved the configuration. My mouse worked fine after the second reconfiguration for the console and for X. Before the windows(tm) type of tactic, I had no mouse for either console or X.
Jim
-- The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
