Installing Touchpad in Feisty Fawn

[Brian Beattie]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:06 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> > You need to add a line to the Synaptics section in x.org,  Mine looks
> > like the following:
> > ------------------
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >         Driver          "synaptics"
> >         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
> >         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
> >         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
> >         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
> >         Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
> > EndSection
> 
> I've done this, but I don't seem to be able to affect the touchpad
> operation very much. In particular, I want to scale up the cursor
> movement, i.e., make the cursor move further along the screen for a
> given movement of my finger. Any ideas how to do this?

Not sure I just switched to 64bits and don't have everything
reconfigured.  I have to get off to work right now, but you might look
at this link:

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/05/06/temporarily-disable-touchpad-while-typing/
> 
> I'm using a Dell Latitude D820.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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