Mouse - touchpad question on laptop

[Josh Coffman]

--- Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:10, John Warner
> wrote:
> >   
> >> I'm quite the newbie with Linux and I suspect
> this is in the
> >> documentation somewhere but I seem to not be
> asking the right question
> >> of google etc too get the answer. My experience
> so far is with a
> >> dedicated desktop computer for FC4 with a
> conventional mouse. What I'm
> >> planning to do is set up a laptop (Dell) to run
> FC4 dual boot. My
> >> question to get to the point is the touchpad
> mouse on the laptop. When
> >> doing the install (I plan on using X) what is the
> recommended setting
> >> for touchpad in terms of a mouse? What I mean is,
> is this a two button
> >> mouse, etc. Again please over look if this is
> obvious, as I said I can't
> >> seem to find the answer in the docs.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > Hi, John.  I set up Mandriva on one laptop and
> Fedora Core on another, and in 
> > both cases I did not need to do anything about the
> touchpad - it was 
> > configured automatically.
> >
> > Anne
> >   
> As I mentioned before, the only issue I've ever
> found with laptop 
> touchpads might be when you use a USB mouse.  I've
> had a problem where 
> I've had to configure the mouse driver as a module
> and to load it after 
> the USB subsystem initializes to get the touchpad to
> work.  And that is 
> not always the case with all laptops.  Otherwise 'it
> just works'.
> 
> 
> 
I use FC4 on an hp pavilion zv5440. The touchpad
worked on some distros and not others. I had to run
echo -n "reconnect" >
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio3/drvctl

usb mouse worked fine with the touchpad, but I had to
configure two devices Xorg.conf to get the touchpad
scroll to work and keep the usb mouse working at the
same time.




-j




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