Re: Mouse - touchpad question on laptop

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Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:10, John Warner wrote:
I'm quite the newbie with Linux and I suspect this is in the
documentation somewhere but I seem to not be asking the right question
of google etc too get the answer. My experience so far is with a
dedicated desktop computer for FC4 with a conventional mouse. What I'm
planning to do is set up a laptop (Dell) to run FC4 dual boot. My
question to get to the point is the touchpad mouse on the laptop. When
doing the install (I plan on using X) what is the recommended setting
for touchpad in terms of a mouse? What I mean is, is this a two button
mouse, etc. Again please over look if this is obvious, as I said I can't
seem to find the answer in the docs.


Hi, John. I set up Mandriva on one laptop and Fedora Core on another, and in both cases I did not need to do anything about the touchpad - it was configured automatically.

Anne
As I mentioned before, the only issue I've ever found with laptop touchpads might be when you use a USB mouse. I've had a problem where I've had to configure the mouse driver as a module and to load it after the USB subsystem initializes to get the touchpad to work. And that is not always the case with all laptops. Otherwise 'it just works'.



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