x server resetting touchpad?

From: A. S. Budden (newsreader.mail_at_NOSPAM.southparade.vispa.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:53:37 GMT

Dear Gurus,

I've been trying to solve my long-ish-standing problem of tpconfig not
working with Redhat 9. It worked on my old computer on RH8, but I
upgraded as I thought it was about time to pay some money to the greater
good. After the upgrade it stopped working. In case it was a kernel
issue, I have tried downgrading the kernel to the redhat 8 one (using
the RPM), but this didn't help.

If I start in init 3, run tpconfig --tapmode=0 and then tpconfig -i, I
get told that tapmode is disabled. If I were to then start gpm, and do
tpconfig -i, tapmode is still disabled. This is also confirmed by the
behaviour of the touchpad. However, as soon as I start X, either with
startx or init 5, the touchpad becomes reenabled. (I can confirm this
with tpconfig -i). I cannot redo the tpconfig --tapmode=0 as it
doesn't work while either gpm or X are running.

I can only assume that starting the X server resets the touchpad (an
Alps Glidepoint) and puts it back into tapping on mode. Is there any
way I can stop this.

<whimper>
My new laptop's usb ports are temperamental -- the usb mouse I have only
seems to work in the docking station, not in the local ports -- thus, I
can only use an external mouse if I carry the docking station (big and
heavy) and a PSU around with me. So I either have to put up with my
cursor jumping all over the place because of the <swearwords> touchpad,
or I have to live without a mouse (the latter is preferable).
</whimper>

I am REALLY desperate to sort this out -- PLEASE can anyone help me with
this? There is a patch for the kernel to allow tpconfig to run when X
is running, but (a) it seems to be only for quite old kernels and (b) I
have tried a few times to recompile my kernel and it seems beyond me.

Many thanks in advance,

Al

Linux morat 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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