mousepad on bottom

Forum: Laptops
Topic: mousepad on bottom
started by: blaise

Posted by blaise on Aug. 23 2005,06:20

Hello,

Y have a Compaq Presario1200 Laptop. (celeron 695ghz, 64mo, 5GB)
y need to use DSL but my touchpad stay always on bottom, she move left to right but always on bottom, when y try move to top y switch on an other workspace. What can y do ?

ps : y have a ps2 mouse but she don't works.

Thanks

Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 23 2005,12:30

My only 2 solutions for THIS model of laptop has been..

1. Use serial mouse. ( my solution for now )

2. Install XFree86 using framebuffer

That synaptics trackpad works in XFree .. not in XFBdev or XVesa
Other laptops can use their trackpads.. just these compaq's seem stubborn..

73
ke4nt