--- Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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'. > > > I use FC4 on an hp pavilion zv5440. The touchpad worked on some distros and not others. I had to run echo -n "reconnect" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio3/drvctl usb mouse worked fine with the touchpad, but I had to configure two devices Xorg.conf to get the touchpad scroll to work and keep the usb mouse working at the same time. -j __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
