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Dear Brett,
You forgot to include your personal
e-mail address. But that's ok.
I have an IBM P-133 with/MMX technology
laptop, and when I installed RedHat Linux 7.1 or 7.2 it picked up the built-in
touch mouse using the standard 2-button mouse featured in the standard
set-up.
You might need to contact HP and see if
they have a driver that will work with RH Linux for your touch mouse, but I
doubt if HP cares that much about Linux users-however one never knows. Usually
the "technical support" people are aware of us "Linux users" and can give us
some tips that we can't find elsewhere due to research that their Linux
customers may have done and reported back to them.
Having done technical support (Technical
Lead person) for the Castlewood ORB Drives myself, we were constantly aware of
people who had developed drivers for the IDE, SCSI, Parallel Port, USB, and all
other types of Linux drivers that were developed and worked with our ORB Drives.
Our customers would send them (the drivers-or information that one could follow
that "worked") to us along with their experiences, and we would mail what they
had sent us directly to our customers. That way, we could not only point them in
the right direction, but send them the product they needed right then and there
- thanks to our customers who were able to do the work for us and pass the
information along to us.
That is one of the things I love about
RedHat Linux-all of us working together around the world for every conceivable
type of problem or etc. Isn't that cool?
Also, you might try going to the www.linux.com site and see if they have any
Linux downloadable "plug 'n' play" tools that you could install inside RedHat
Linux (with the "RPM" or "up2date" programs built inside of RedHat Linux)
that might also help your laptop to pick up your touch-pad mouse in RH Linux.
Which version/upgrade do you have? That would be useful information to provide,
as well - seeing they are up to version 9.0 now.
One last thing, HP might have a driver
on their website that you could download for that touch-pad mouse, then when you
install, change or upgrade your version of RH Linux, try the "Linux dd" command
at startup and insert the 3.5" floppy containing the mouse driver for the mouse
downloaded from HP's website when Linux instructs you to do so during the
installation/upgrade process.
Hope these suggestions help you find the
answer you need to get that touchpad mouse working properly! Let me (and the
rest of us) know, ok?
Thanks!
Sincerely,
John A. Jones 2219 E. Isaacs Street, Lot #16 Walla Walla, WA
99362 509-525-2253 (Telephone: Personal/Message) guitar7 walla2 com (E-Mail: Personal)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:19
AM
Subject: [rhn-users] Un able to get Lab
top mouse to work properly
All,
I have recently installed RedHat 8.0 on my HP laptop and I love every
minute of it. However, there is a small, annoying problem. I am unable to get
the OS to properly interact with the touch pad mouse. In fact, the only way
I?m able to navigate the system (outside of alt- commands) is by plugging a
mouse into the back of the PCU.
Does anyone have any idea as to how I can fix this problem? Or is this
just something I?ll have to live with?
God
bless,
Brett
"The
principle use of prudence or self-control is that it teaches us to be masters
of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they
cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them
all."
~Descartes
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