Laptop touchpad

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 8:16 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2004 6:54 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall 
wrote:
> > > In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > > When using my IBM R40 laptop under WinXP, I can use the touchpad to
> > > > left-click by tapping it, and can scroll with it by running my finger
> > > > down the right sight. Under linux (Fedora Core 2), I can only use the
> > > > touchpad for moving the mouse around.
> > > >
> > > > How can I add functionality to the touchpad under linux?
> > >
> > > I'm sure that whatever the process entails, it will involve waving
> > > chicken feet over the touchpad. ;-)
> >
> > Damn, I've been told I have chicken legs, but, sadly, no chicken feet :-(
>
> In the interests of being more helpful, if it uses a Synaptics touchpad,
> you'll probably need the Synaptics driver. I don't know if it is a stock
> part of FC2's X distribution. There's a link to a driver for it here:
> http://www.tuxmobil.org/touchpad_driver.html
>
> 

Hmmm... 
Definitely uses a Synaptics touchpad. I guess there's no reason to think a 
driver intended for XFree86 wouldn't work with Xorg, is there?

And that was much more helpful, your reputation has been sullied...

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