Synaptics Touchpad problems

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Jan 30 20:32:44 UTC 2006


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.
> 
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (optionally with ksynaptics if using KDE -
there doesn't seem to be a corresponding package for gnome, but I could be
wrong).
-- 
derek





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