Synaptics Touchpad problems

[Richard Dennis Colbert Jr.]

C Hamel wrote:
> Breezy is installed and seems to work fairly well on the Pavilion ze5570us 
> notebook --all except for the Synaptics touchpad driver (and a minor problem 
> w/ppp which I'll ask about later) in the fact that it often takes several 
> taps on the touchpad before anything happens.  When I used to use SuSE I was 
> told to change the driver, after which it worked fine.  Gentoo, also, worked 
> fine w/the 'mouse' driver.  I have tried that just once w/Breezy by manually 
> editing the xorg.conf file and kdm would not execute unless & until I 
> reinstated the original driver.
>   
I would enable Universe and Multiverse in Synaptics Package Manager and 
then search for "mouse", "synaptics", and "touchpad". Surely someone has 
released a package into one of the repositories to resolve this problem.

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