i've got slackware 10.2 installed on my laptop and during startup, i see this:i guess those lines are the drivers for my keyboard/mouse being initialized(is that right?), but why does it have two entries for the mouse? i only have a trackpad.

also, what does the isa0600/serio1 part mean? does that mean my input devices are on the isa bus? i didnt think this laptop used any isa, i compiled my kernel without isa bus support and my mouse and keyboard work.

Not certain but maybe one is a regular mouse and the other is about the pad thingie in laptop?

yeah, but i dont have any other mice, only the trackpad.

I think it just means either PS/2 or AlpsPS/2 would work for the driver, like in XF86Config or xorg.conf... I'd try using that AlpsPS/2 one to see if theres anything different about using that then the normal PS/2 driver. Your trackpad could go haywire if you try to use the normal PS/2 driver or something, but if either works, I say leave it as long as it functions like you think it should.

how would i try that other driver out? i thought xorg/xfree86 had it's own mouse driver, in my xorg.conf, the mouse driver is "mouse", the keyboard is "kbd". actually, i can't find any mouse.o or kbd.o on my system, so i dunno where that's coming from.

Oops, I didn't mean driver, I ment protocol. Sorry about that. I mean where it says:

Option "Protocol" "PS/2"

or whatever, you could change that PS/2 to AlpsPS/2 and see if it made any difference. I imagine it would have some subtle difference atleast because it identified your mouse as that specific type, and if it wasn't a specific type and just a generic PS/2 then why would it tell you it was an AlpsPS/2. If PS/2 works fine there though, I'd just assume leave it, unless you have extra buttons or functions or whatever that arn't working, then try AlpsPS/2 and see if that enables those functions/buttons/whatever.

well, setting the protocol to "AlpsPS/2" causes X to not start and give me an error, so i guess that it isnt a real protocol or at least not one that X can handle.

the reason i'm looking into it is because my trackpad does this obnoxious thing where tapping it = a click. it's become a real problem when i use this laptop because if my finger slips, etc. my windows get closed/mimimized, apps on the dock get executed 3 and 4 at a time, etc.

from what i can gather, i'd have to get a touchpad driver and use that with some kind of touchtap=off option, instead of a regular mouse driver. it seems that the driver that i need is already compiled into the kernel(ALPS/Synaptics), but i dunno what the PS/2 thing is about, maybe it uses alps to handle the trackpad stuff and turn it into standard mouse stuff, then sends that on the the regular mouse ps/2 driver or something.