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I'm having a similar problem with my Mandrake 10 (also a 2.6 kernel), s I'm bumping this thread. The pad moves the cursor, but I have to use the buttonts to click. Is there a patch or somesuch available to remedy the problem?
I'm having exactly the same problem. The thing is though. That I just recently compiled a 2.6 kernel on my laptop which seemed to have caused this. When I was running my 2.4.23 kernel everything was working. Are there any kernel options that could have ruined my touchpad/mousepad functioning? Also. My laptop is very poorly documented so I don't know what kind of touchpad/mousepad I have. All I know is that it's called "XBook" and has alot of SiS based hardware.
Greetings,
I read somewhere recently that in SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel) You go Yast,hardware, graphics card and monitor, click change to bring up SAX2, click input devices, mouse, properties and then select synaptics touchpad and restart X. If you can translate that to your distro it may help. Will get back here when I have tried it.
Thanks. Your fix worked perfectly for my Dell Latitude C600 with SuSE 9.1. It had defaulted to the Intellimouse driver, which made the pointer jumpy and the touchpad double-bump not work.
there is a very good explication. then you have to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
here's my xorg.conf file (notice: i have 2 monitors, that's why there are 2 videocards, 2 screens and 2 monitors)
Quote:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection
Legolin, you are the man!! That worked like a champ. Thanks a bunch for your assistance. It's sooooo much nicer to be able to use it as it should be used.
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