Laptops :: touchpad problems.

Hello,

I'm trying to install DSL on my compaq 1230 laptop. It boots fine, X starts ok. My pcmcia combo card works fine.

But, yes there is a small little but ...

The touchpad of the laptop is moving the cursor left and right fine ( no problems when I move the mouse left or right ).
But, for vertical movement, ( up and down ) the cursor goes at the bottom of the screen. I'm not able to move it up.

I'm searching the web for an answer but without luck. I know, this is a problem related to touchpad.

Tanks for any help !

Vincent.

Can anyone please help with this problem?

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem on a Compaq Presario 1200 notebook.

I also can't get an external ps/2 mouse to work...
The cursor just won't move when using the external mouse, and with the touchpad the mouse just jumps to the bottom of the screen and is only moving left-right

Thanks for help

I am also having this problem. It's a compaq 1681 laptop with and mmx-233 processor.

I can get a USB mouse to work fine, but then DSL recognizes the internal mouse location at "/dev/psaux" on startup -- but then when I run fb800x600 it only allows me to put the mouse at the ps2 port. so I figured i could go to the configuration file at /etc/x11/... but I can't find it.

I can't figure out where the file is to change it to /psaux or if that's even what's needed.

anyone have a fix for this i am having the same issue also with a compaq (12xl310). usb mouse works great but i rather touchpad.

i just found this dsl guide for old compaq notebook has some info on setting up the touchpad on a compaq notebook might be the info we are all looking for. i am going to try it if it works ill post back.

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