Just A Thought.....Or Two

[Kjartan Maraas]

tir, 19,.10.2004 kl. 20.51 -0400, skrev Jeffrey D. Yuille:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 07:57 am, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > man, 18,.10.2004 kl. 22.26 -0400, skrev Jeffrey D. Yuille:
> > > Dear Sirs,
> > >
> > >       I was wondering why is that in Fedora Core, the Synaptics Touchpad
> > > is not supported, whereas in Redhat 9 and Redhat WS3, it is.   I can
> > > guide the cursor through the touchpad but I cannot tap it to close
> > > webpages or access programs.  I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 with Fedora
> > > Core 2 installed.  Will this be corrected in the final release of Fedora
> > > Core 3?  Also, I notice that
> >
> > FC3 current rawhide includes the synaptics driver and for me it works
> > with tapping, scrolling etc. I had to run system-config-display --
> > reconfig to get it working, but it *does* work :-)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Kjartan
> 
> 
> Hello Kjartan, 
> 
>      When you say, "system-config-display-reconfig", what specific settings 
> are you speaking of?   
> 
I meant system-config-display --reconfig and just set the relevant data
for display and graphics card. This should set up the bits for the
synaptics touchpad automagically if it's detected correctly I think.

It saved a backup of xorg.conf for me so you should check the
differences in there to see what it actually did.

Cheers
Kjartan