On Wednesday 10 March 2004 03:38 pm, William R. Gomeringer wrote:

> 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

Perfect! 
To answer my own question, this is both a kernel and a xfree issue. I had to 
recompile my 2.6 kernel to include support for Event Interface. Once that 
compiled, I downloaded and installed the driver from the above link (thanks 
WRG). Finally, I modified my XF86config file as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
� � Identifier �"Mouse1"

� � #Driver����� "mouse"
� � Driver������ "synaptics"

� � #Option �"Protocol"�"IMPS/2"
� � Option ����� "Protocol"�����"auto-dev"

� � Option ����� "Device"�������"/dev/psaux"
� � Option������ "ZAxisMapping"�"4 5"
� � Option������"LeftEdge" � � �"1700"
� � Option������"RightEdge" � � "5300"
� � Option������"TopEdge" � � � "1700"
� � Option������"BottomEdge" � �"4200"
� � Option������"FingerLow"�����"25"
� � Option������"FingerHigh"����"30"
� � Option������"MaxTapTime"����"180"
� � Option������"MaxTapMove"����"220"
� � Option������"VertScrollDelta" "100"
� � Option������"MinSpeed"������"0.06"
� � Option������"MaxSpeed"������"0.12"
� � Option������"AccelFactor" � "0.0010"
� � Option������"SHMConfig"�����"on"
� � #Option�����"Repeater"������"/dev/ps2mouse"

� � Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

I now have the very cool "tap to click" functionality that I wanted :-) 

Note: Some binary distributions may have this precompiled, such as Mandrake, 
RH, Fedora
-- 
z
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