touchpad configuration: where?

[Jim Cornette]

Trevor Smith wrote:
> I have a compaq presario 2100 series laptop. It has a touchpad that allows 
> double taps to act like mouse clicks and a "scroll area" on the right side 
> (and allegedly across the bottom) of the pad that acts like a mouse scroll 
> wheel.
> 
> These features work in WinXP, of course, and when I first installed FC1, they 
> worked but I think I might have found some place to "turn them on". Now with 
> FC2, I can not find that place anymore and they are not enabled. How can I 
> modify the properties of my touchpad with FC2?
> 

Try adding psmouse.proto=imps to the end of your boot line. It works for 
my synaptics touchpad on an HP laptop.

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/  acpi=on psmouse.proto=imps

Is the line that you add it to. When you start your computer again, it 
might work.
Others had no luck with this method and installed the synaptics rpm and 
adjusted their xorg.conf file. I had no luck with ths approach though. 
The archives should have this subject under synaptics.

Jim
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