I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll wheel.
These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2?
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:51:16 -0300, Trevor Smith trevor@haligonian.com wrote:
I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll wheel.
These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2?
http://tuxmobil.org/touchpad_driver.html
That, of course, is assuming that Compaq has a Synaptic touchpad.
Trevor Smith wrote:
I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll wheel.
These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2?
Try adding psmouse.proto=imps to the end of your boot line. It works for my synaptics touchpad on an HP laptop.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on psmouse.proto=imps
Is the line that you add it to. When you start your computer again, it might work. Others had no luck with this method and installed the synaptics rpm and adjusted their xorg.conf file. I had no luck with ths approach though. The archives should have this subject under synaptics.
Jim
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
Trevor Smith wrote:
I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll wheel.
These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2?
Try adding psmouse.proto=imps to the end of your boot line. It works for my synaptics touchpad on an HP laptop.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on psmouse.proto=imps
Is the line that you add it to. When you start your computer again, it might work.
This restores tapping on the touchpad, but it does have some drawbacks. For example, on my Thinkpad it disables the pinting stick and the associated buttons.
Others had no luck with this method and installed the synaptics rpm and adjusted their xorg.conf file. I had no luck with ths approach though. The archives should have this subject under synaptics.
For FC2, you can grab the synaptics-0.13.5-5 (or latest) RPM from the Fedora development tree (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fed.... That not only enables tapping, but scrolling and other features as well. Highly configurable.
Jim