The last information I have is that the tap-to-click feature for the TouchPad is not well supported in the 2.6.x kernels, mainly due to device sensitivity and calibration issues if I understand the various writeups on the subject.
I've had several laptops with the TouchPad from Gateway and Dell, and I've yet to get the tap-to-click feature to work correctly or reliably... http://compass.com/synaptics/ http://www.synaptics.com/support/downloads.cfm#drivers Jaimie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William R. Gomeringer Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:39 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Synaptics Touch pad issue -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This worked for me: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:33 pm, z wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 with a Synaptics touch pad that moves the > mouse cursor around but the "tap to click" functionality does not > work. I am running an up to date Gentoo system with a 2.6.3 kernel, > XFree 4.3.0-r5 and KDE 3.2.0. > > Is this an xfree config issue or a kernel driver issue? Any ideas on > how to get this to work? > > z -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAT3zWVMCFrPI3CMERAkF7AJ9CtGLrzz2aaBGzeLqpK4dMkDmibACg1c/O 6UGqtZDLlnyPpjLpiVaIFrg= =llHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
