Synaptics Touchpad problems

[C Hamel]

On Monday January 30 2006 09:45, Richard Dennis Colbert Jr. wrote:
> 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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I did find a pkg, 'tpconfig' that apparently replaces 'synaptics' though I am 
uncertain, as yet, whether this actually fixes the problem.  I'm still 
testing it as I am uncertain just what triggers the problem.   If that could 
be fingered(tm) that out it should be easily reproducible.

Thanks for the suggestion. :-)
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...CH