On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 05:45, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > I have a dell inspiron 4150 and with the 2.5.73 on wards my mouse has > stopped working. Seems there a driver for x for it but when i built it and > set it up i had no luck yet i havent looked into it totally yet . I'm using a Dell Inspiron 8000 (P3 700) and I followed the instructions from here: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html These, however, did not work (I may need some kernel option I'm too dense to see). Luckily, they were fairly close and I eventually got it working by doing this: 1. Make sure that the kernel has event interface compiled in 2. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config: Add the following line to the "Modules" section: Section "Modules" Load "synaptics" Replace your mouse section with this: Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Protocol" "event" Option "LeftEdge" "1900" Option "RightEdge" "5400" Option "TopEdge" "3900" Option "BottomEdge" "1800" Option "Finger" "25 30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.02" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" # Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse" # Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection The SHMConfig is only needed if you want to use the synclient program to adjust mouse parameters on the fly. Since those changes aren't permanent, I didn't bother. Edit "ServerLayout" to match: Section "ServerLayout" InputDevice "Mouse" "CorePointer" To disable tapping, set MaxTapTime to 0. If you need to recompile the driver, download XFree86-4.3.0-2.src.rpm (substituting the one that matches your installed version of X) and the synaptics driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html # rpm -vU XFree86-4.3.0-2.src.rpm # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS # rpmbuild -bb XFree86.spec You don't actually need to let it finish compiling. Just let it run for a few minutes and then go ahead and try to compile the module. Edit the Makefile that comes with the synaptics driver and set the variable TOP to point to your XFree86 source tree. Then type "make" to build the driver. 3. Copy synaptics_drv.o to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input 4. Copy synclient to /usr/bin 5. Restart X The laptop has taken to hanging on occassion, but I'm not sure if the problem is with 2.5 or the synaptics driver. -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555
