Re: Synaptics touchpad problem.....

[Josh Crawley <josh@voicecomcorp.com>]

Joseph Fannin wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Josh Crawley wrote:
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>>Summation of cut: Compaq 1260 Touchpad does not work with Synaptics
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>    Boot with psmouse=noext or (better) set up the userspace half of
>the new synaptics touchpad driver for XFree86 from:
>http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
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I'll probably stick with the kernel param. I'm not the best of coders 
 (and no where near kernel-level). Course, that's why I'm here.

Still, I was wondering why it (synaptics) was putting sync errors even 
when I was in console mode. It was almost as it couldnt decode the 
output of the touchpad.

>    We're still waiting for someone to step forward and write support
>for GPM for this, I guess.
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I dont even have GPM on my laptop. I had enough troubles dealing with 
Slack and its incessant need of default choosing GPM.

I'm still green when it comes to understanding interals, but thanks for 
explaining what was probably a dumb question.

Josh Crawley.