touch pad on compaq presario 1700?

[John Lagrue]

lwj wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 05:55, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
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>>HÃ¥kan Larsson wrote:
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>>>Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
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>>>>Try adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to the kernel arguments in your 
>>>>grub.conf entries.
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>>>No:-( it did not work on my compaq presario 1700.
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>>>Regardes Hakan
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>>Sorry to hear that.  Worked great on my Presario 2100.
>>Have you checked for BIOS updates for the 1700?
>>You might also search the list archive for synaptics just in the last 
>>few days - someone mentioned a driver rpm to install.
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>If you have a synaptics touchpad trying installing the driver. I used
>the direction here:
>http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=954&sid=fa6523c759e52792013c9a445b0f5296
>The driver also available from this site in both binary and source form.
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Is there by any chance a version of this anywhere for FC2? It looks 
neat, but the FC1 RPM starts throwing strange messages when I try it.

JDL