How I "fixed" my laptop Alps touchpad

[Tony Arnold]

Default User wrote:
> My laptop has an Alps touchpad (not Synaptics). Running any FOSS system,
> it was too slow. Moving from top to bottom or side to side of the
> touchpad only moved the cursor about 1/2 to 2/3 the height or width of
> the screen. So I was using a mouse (on a laptop?) instead. What the
> hell, it worked. 
> 
> Today, running Ubuntu 7.04, I finally figured out a quick fix for the
> touchpad. All I had to do was, as root, add one line to the
> file /etc/X11/xorg.conf: 
> 
>         Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.5"

I've been looking for this for a while. I'll give it a try. Do you know
if increasing the value of AccelFactor increases or decrease the amount
of movement of the cursor? I would imagine increase!

Regards,
Tony.
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