The touchpad on my Sony wouldn't work in X until I put a command to turn gpm off in .xinitrc. No trouble after that. No idea if that applies to your case.
regards MW On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:18, Robert wrote: > I'm having trouble getting the touchpad on my laptop to work under > debian woody > My laptop is a Gateway Solo 1200, and it has a synaptic > > when i used dpkg-reconfigure on xserver-xfree86 and set it up as a > default ps/2 mouse, the cursor only moved about in about a 640 x 480 > section of the screen (im running in 800 x 600 mode), and the actual > selection point of the mouse is several inches off from where the cursor > is (i.e. when i move as far over to the bottom right as i can i can > click on the bottom right part of the screen, even though the cursor is > not there) > when i set it to GlidePoint, the cursor was still bounded to the small > box, but it moved very very slowly about > > then i tried using gpm to run my mouse, and so i set it to its default > settings and the cursor only moved left and right and clicked randomly > when i moved around > so i tried configuring it to be specifically like my mouse (the > synaptics settings, i tried both) and the mouse didnt respond at all > > what do you suggest? > > Robert
