Jon wrote:
Thanks Graham,
I tried the Synaptics driver and followed the install isntructions, but to no
avail. No errors or anything, just no change in behaviour.
I almost think that my touchpad is emulating a mouse somehow and that XF86 is
unaware that it's a touchpad. I think this because shutting the touchpad off
altogether in the KDE Control Centre has no effect and my XF86Config-4 file
actually says in it 'No Synpatics touchpad detected' and 'ALSP Touchpad not
detected'.
Very frustrating...
Jon
-- snipped a bunch...
Your touch pad, if it's anything like my panasonic tough book, is indeed
emulating a mouse. Probably a ps2 one, specifically. When I first got
my tough book, I found that the touch pad (tp) was not my favorite input
device, so I looked into installing an external mouse. I found that if
I hooked up a serial mouse to it, I could use the tp or the external
mouse, but not both.
If I had set up the external mouse, and powered up, then I was finding
that I'd go through the boot process and discover no mouse available at
all. I expect I could have done some fiddling to get them both up and
running, but an easier solution for me was to use a usb mouse. That
way, I never had a problem using either the tp or the usb mouse. Both
worked right off the bat.
This was my preferred solution, because if I had hooked up a serial
mouse, or a ps2 mouse, I usually had to power down to hook up the
external mouse. With a usb device, it was always hot swappable, and I
never had to power down/up or fiddle with drivers. It always just
worked. I eventually got a miniature usb 4 port hub to expand my usb
devices, to make up for using up the only usb port on my tough book.
Your needs aren't quite clear, unless I missed something. My apologies
if I'm belabouring the obvious. Were you wanting to disable your tp, or
just use an external mouse? If the latter, then you just need to get a
usb mouse. There are some good wireless ones available, miniature, too,
for laptops. That's what I finally settled on.
hth.
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