Install on Dell Inspiron 8600 - Pb with Touchpad, HAL

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:32:03PM +0200, Eric SCHAEFFER wrote:

> The touchpad gives me also troubles.
> It seems to be an "ALPS" touchpad (according to xfree86-driver-synaptics
> documentation). I've modified synaptics configuration according to the
> doc (use the event protocol and the event device), but the driver
> doesn't find any touchpad device.
> Does the kernel support ALPS touchpad devices ? It must be compiled with
> some options (and maybe patched).

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1721

> There's another problem: HAL doesn't work. It seems to start but... Hal
> device manager doesn't work saying:

Is hald running?

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 - mdz