Re: [SLE] 9.2 and touchpad

From: Steve (ssivier1_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/08/05

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    Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:24:42 -0800
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    Stan Glasoe wrote:
    > On Monday 07 March 2005 1:03 pm, Adam Naumowicz wrote:
    >
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>I recently upgraded my SuSE 9.0 into 9.2 and I can't
    >>get rid of several irksome problems. First of all, the
    >>touchpad in my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L behaves
    >>strangely - the cursor moves in a wild unreliable
    >>manner, clicking on the pad seems also rather
    >>haphazard. Tweaking with the configurable mouse
    >>options is of little help - it seems to improve the
    >>behaviour a bit, but still it is far from how it
    >>worked before the upgrade.
    >>
    >>But even worse is the fact that when I now reboot from
    >>linux to windows xp, the clicking on touchpad is
    >>disabled - how can the system know that??? Isn't the
    >>device fully reset when rebooting? If I poweroff, then
    >>the touchpad works fine in windows. This didn't happen
    >>with my previous SuSE 9.0, so what is wrong here?
    >>
    >>All help appreciated,
    >>
    >>Adam
    >>
    >
    >
    > There is "ksynaptics - A KDE configuration module for the synaptics touchpad"
    > available in SUSE 9.2. It is available within Control Center under
    > Peripherals as Touch Pad.

    Any idea where ksynaptics might be on the install disks? A search for
    ksynaptics or touchpad turns up nothing in Yast. And I don't have a
    touch pad selection in control center.

    Thanks,
    Steve

    > Hope your laptop has the Synaptics Touchpad. Also works with some ALPS
    > Touchpads too.
    >
    > Stan
    > 

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