On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:44:40PM -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > I am new to Fedora Core. I don't know what it means to "Update rhpl and > system -config-display to the latest Rawhide. I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 > with a Synaptics Touchpad. It would seem to me that it would make more sense > to include configuration of the pointing device within the Start Menu-System > Settings, or at least during the initial installation. You don't need to configure it. It should automatically discover and configure it for you. If you are using the latest development tree (or the FC3-rc1 just announced) it should definately have the fixes to the rhpl package which allows this automatic configuration to work. If you update your system to the latest development (which is also called "Rawhide") using up2date, or yum, you can try having the system automatically configure the Synaptics Touchpad by issuing this command at the command line: system-config-display --reconfig