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08-18-2003, 02:57 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
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Touch pad Help
HI,
I,m working with redhad 9.0 on my laptop and i can't use my touch pad.
Is there anybody who can help me to make my touch pad to work with redhad?
Thanks
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09-09-2003, 03:24 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Indiana
Distribution: Suse 6.0+, Mandrake 5.0-10.0, Redhat 6.0-9.0, Gentoo 1.2+, Gnoppix, Knoppix, Sabayon, Ubuntu 5.04+
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Its probably a USB mouse. Shows up that way on toshiba's sometimes..
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09-09-2003, 07:22 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Silly Con Valley
Distribution: Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9.0
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caeda, is on the ball here. get a ps/2 mouse and set it up as generic ps/2 mouse using the "mouseconfig" command and your touchpad should then be working after rebooting. i haven't found a way to make the touchpad work in linux using a usb mouse.
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09-11-2003, 09:10 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Pennsylvania
Distribution: Redhat 9.0
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its probably set as ps2 change it to usb
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