Re: RH9 and Touchpad

["A. S. Budden" <redhat mail southparade vispa com>]

I've tried this already -- gpm was loading after touchpad anyway.
Regardless, to be sure I've removed the gpm link -- I rarely use it
anyway.

As for /var/log/messages, it says:

May  5 10:36:29 zakalwe touchpad:
May  5 10:36:29 zakalwe rc: Starting touchpad:  succeeded

I don't know about whether I have the correct driver, I use an entry in
XF86Config (or at least I did until the touchpad tapping annoyed me too
much) as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse1"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

This is the same as it was under Redhat 8

Any further help would be appreciated...

Al

Thus spake Bret Hughes:
> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 10:20, A. S. Budden wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I've recently upgraded from RH8 to RH9 and I've been having some
> > annoying problems with my laptop's (sony vaio pcg-z600tek) touchpad.
> > I've installed the tpconfig software that I used on RH8, and there is a
> > "touchpad" entry in the init.d directory and in rc5.d.  It specifies
> > that touchpad tapping should be turned off. During startup, touchpad
> > appears to start correctly, but tapping the touchpad still clicks. This
> > has been annoying me to the point of using an external mouse by
> > preference.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions please? I'm quite new to linux, so
> > please keep it simple!
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> 
> Al I have not used this on 9 but the trick I have found on 6.x and 7.x
> was to make sure that the touchpad is started in the runlevel directory
> before gpm (console mouse services)
> 
> you  can verify this by looking at the directory listing for
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (rc3.d if you boot into text mode).  
> 
> bhughes]$ ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
> K01kdcrotate   K50snmpd      S08ipchains   S28autofs      S90crond
> K03rhnsd       K50snmptrapd  S08iptables   S45pcmcia      S90xfs
> K15postgresql  K65identd     S10network    S55sshd        S95anacron
> K20nfs         K73ypbind     S12syslog     S56rawdevices  S95atd
> K20rwhod       K74nscd       S13portmap    S56xinetd      S95hylafax
> K30sendmail    K74ntpd       S14nfslock    S60lpd         S99local
> K35smb         K75netfs      S17keytable   S77Win4Lin     S99webmin
> K35vncserver   K91isdn       S20random     S84touchpad
> K35winbind     K96irda       S25shorewall  S85gpm
> K46radvd       S05kudzu      S26apmd       S85httpd
> 
> 
> Notice on my laptop (above listing the S84touchpad and S85gpm  they need
> to be in that order. 
> 
> You can also look in /var/log/messages for something funky.  
> 
> Last I would say make sure that you have selected the corect driver for
> your mouse.  You used to be able to do this with mouseconfig I have no
> idea if RH deprecated it or not in favor of all the new
> redhat-config-whatever programs.
> 
> HTH
> Bret
> 
> 
> The S?? prefixes control the order stuff is started on your box.
> 
> 
> 
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