mouse/touchpad problems

Forum: Laptops
Topic: mouse/touchpad problems
started by: Soros

Posted by Soros on Feb. 21 2007,14:59

I have a Laptop
Pentium II 233mhz
32 mb RAM
4 mb Graka

I installed DSL and i can't use any mouse typs
touchpad don't work
PS/2 mouses doesn't work
USB mouse works but i can use a usb mouse

and i need the konfiguration on boot but i dont know how to start it

Posted by WDef on Feb. 21 2007,19:32

Have you ran xsetup.sh?

Posted by Soros on Feb. 22 2007,04:50

yes 20 times^^

Its a old laptop an has a old touchpad

I dont know what to do -.-

pls add me i need to know
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Posted by Juanito on Feb. 22 2007,05:47

What sort of touchpad do you have - ALPS, Synaptics or?

My ALPS touchpad works using XFRee86.unc and I remember Roberts menioned his worked using xsetup.sh

Posted by WDef on Feb. 23 2007,00:12

If it is an ALPS touchpad you should try Juanito's synaptics_alps module (in the modules section of the repo). I was able to get the touchpad on my friend's newish Sony Vaio working with that (Thanks Juanito!). First you need to have XFree86 working to use that though.

Question: why can't you use a usb mouse (if I understood correctly)? At least use that while you're getting your touchpad working ..

Posted by Soros on Feb. 23 2007,01:02

hm ich have a usb mouse that works

but this laptop got only 1 usb and i need this for the wlan stick
now i downloaded this XFree86 and burned it from my other pc on cd
but my DSL cant find the cd and now i cant install it -.-
i love DSL its fast ant easy but all i need is this touchpad >_<

Posted by Juanito on Feb. 23 2007,06:23

A quote from Roberts in another post:

I use an Alps Touchpad and also the touchpad in my Sharp MM10 with the standard tiny X. Usually ps2 and choose 2 button option in xsetup. Also have in working in an AMS Tech 233 with built in touchpad two button mouse

Posted by roberts on Feb. 23 2007,16:03

Its weird, I have only had three different laptops with touchpads and all have worked fine with the tinyX server.

I do use xsetup.sh and skip past usb mouse and ps/2 mouse navigate to serial ports, select ps2, then on the buttons screen select 2 or 3 as appropriate.

At the moment, only have the Sharp MM10, and its .xserverrc displays

exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -screen 1024x768 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

I also have an old ALPS serial touchpad and it works as well when the appropriate serial port is selected in xsetup.sh. I use this on some laptops that have the tiny button embedded in the keyboard.

Posted by WDef on Feb. 23 2007,18:52

On my HP dv4000 laptop, no problems with the touchpas and TinyX or XFree86 - similar setup to Roberts and it just works.

But on my friend's Vaio, which needed XFree86 for nvidia, no touchpad seemed possible without Juanito's synaptics_alps module. Then touchpad worked, with usb mouse at the same time if needed.

Posted by Soros on Feb. 24 2007,10:59

Its a Medion MD9888 laptop
I used DSL-N and touchpad works -_-
BUT DSL-N is to slow....
It says the touchpad is 3 button with wheel