touchpad configuration: where?

[Matthew Saltzman]

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/Fedora/RPMS/.
That not only enables tapping, but scrolling and other features as well.
Highly configurable.

>
> Jim
>

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