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brymway

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,00:29

I have a Compaq Presario 1800 Laptop, 700mhz, 192m RAM, using the touch pad with two buttons running dsl 4.2.5. When I run the cd, the distro loads up beautifully, opens up perfect, but when I go and try to navigate the mouse arrow it jumps around for a split second and then drops down below the task bar and doesn't move up. I can move it to the left and right no problem but can't move it up or down.
I've used this cd just fine on another desktop computer. I've tried puppy, vector, backtrack, and knoppix and they all work fine. The mousepad works perfect. Is there a simple fix for this?

Juanito

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,03:30

I believe most touchpads will emulate a ps/2 mouse. Did you try using xsetup to chose a ps/2 mouse and see what happens?

Depending which touchpad you have, there is also the option of using xfree86 or xorg72 and the synaptics driver - this will only work for alps and synaptics touchpads though.

jpeters

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,05:51

You can also try different settings for xset, like "xset m default", or "xset m 2/1" (acceleration ratio), or "xset m 2" (general speed).

ke4nt1

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,17:36

I have had the same issue, but ONLY on a compaq presario lappy.

My fix was to load XF86 on the old beast at startup.

I never could get XVesa to control the built-in synaptics
mousepad properly, nor would an external ps2 mouse work either.

Now it works fine, and is a usable machine again.

73
ke4nt

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Posted: Mar. 27 2008,18:42

There's an ALPS-synaptics driver in the modules section of the repo, assuming it is one of those touchpads.

Kent doesn't say if he needed that or not, but I got the fouchpad working on a Sony laptop using that with the XFree86 extension.

You have full configurability of all touchpad parameters in XF86 conf (google for setting explanations).

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