On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:52 -0600, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote: > No. The system is an HP laptop (zv6015) that has no PS/2 port. > > I got the system up and running with a USB mouse and then discovered > that I could get the Synaptics Touchpad working by compiling the kernel > with psmouse as a module and automating the module load/unload in > rc.local. On a clean boot with say the stock 1319 kernel, the touchpad > is dead but the same kernel recompiled with psmouse as a module works > fine. > > I haven't tried the possible combinations and permutations of having/no > having a USB mouse plugged in at boot. Also, I see the same behavior > with gpm before starting X. The mouse is defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection Dave, Have you tried using the example given in /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/ on how to configure a Synaptics mouse. If this works (without the recompile) then the next trick would be to get the installed to recognize that this is a Synaptics mouse and to use a similar config fil by default. Rodd -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side"