[ale] Upgraded my Lpatop top to FC2

[Tony Carter]

On Friday 29 October 2004 16:49, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 14:35, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I just installed FC2 on my laptop and my mouse is not working right.
> > All functions work except when I double touch the pad to represent a
> > click.  Is there something i need to turn on?
>
> I can't find the link I saw on this. Something about a touchpad module
> in kernel 2.6.x which FC2 uses. It doesn't autoload right and needs to
> be manually entered in /etc/modprobe.conf. The system sees the touchpad
> as a PS2 mouse and tell it's a touchpad. It sounds to me like it's a
> kudzu bug as that is what's supposed to setup the modules on install.
>
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Works out of the box on my dell d600.  
Here is what dmesg says:

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

If you have a Synaptics tp, check out: 
http://www.tuxmobil.org/touchpad_driver.html

HTH,
Tony