toutchpad slidder went away in Feisty

[Carl Karsten]

Patton Echols wrote:
> On 06/04/2007 05:41 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> in Dapper, the right side of my track pad used to work like a mouse wheel.  (I 
>> think it is called the slider?) I am pretty sure it worked that way out of the 
>> box at least I don't remember doing anything special .
>>
>> I just installed Feisty and now it doesn't .  anyone know what I can do to get 
>> it back?
>>
>> Carl K
>>
>>   
> I haven not tried this, but first a data point for you.  I have upgraded 
> my laptop to fiesty and the slider works.  Mine is a Thinkpad R40.
> 

I had mucked around trying to get WEP wifi stuff working in dapper, and never 
got it quite right - had to do dhclient in a shell most of the time.  So I 
backed up /home and mkfsed the partition.  networkmanager works great now!

> Presumably there is some configuration missing.  I poked around a bit, 
> and would suggest making sure that xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is 
> installed.  It should be if your touchpad works otherwise.
> 

carl at asus17:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is already the newest version.
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics set to manual installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

"set to manual installed." ?!  Never seen that before.  else I would have 
reported it.

"Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad."

I can't win.

so yeah, it is installed.

> There is a package "gsynaptics" that you could try.  It is a GUI 
> interface that allows configuring the synaptics touchpad on the fly.  (I 
> saw that there is another kind of touchpad too, don't know if those 
> tools work with that or what you have . . .)

I am going to hold off a few weeks before I start hacking this thing to death.

> 
> Maybe someone who really  knows will have a better idea ;-)
> 

Thanks for the post, nice to know someone is listening.

Carl K