Problem with new laptop touch pad

Frank Knobbe frank at knobbe.us
Thu Oct 30 21:25:59 PST 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:06, Ray Seals wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:28, Ray Seals wrote:
> > Just purchased and eMachine M3512.  I cannot get the touch pad to work. 
> > Anyone else know if it's supported or any ideas on getting this
> > running.  I have tried it with both 4.8 and 5.1.  I would rather have
> > 5.1 working since the ethernet port is firewire and I can get it working
> > in 5.1 but not 4.8.
> 
> Well, the touch pad is a Synaptics Touchpad on PS/2 port.  Any info on
> getting this to work would be appreciated.

My Dell Inspiron 8100 has a Synaptics Touchpad. There was nothing
special that needed to be done. It is found like any other PS/2 mouse as
psm0. Isn't that found during startup on your box? Check your messages
log file or "dmesg | grep psm0".

Regards,
Frank
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