Once upon a time at band camp Friday 11 July 2003 3:23 am, Cliff Wells wrote: > 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" <snip> finally got mouse working. i had built and installed the module but the config hadnt worked and i hadnt gotten around to looking into it more. i had to use /dev/input/event1 for it to work Regards Dennis
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