problem with ALPS touchpad (Toshiba Satellite) and Gsynaptics

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 22:21:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:39:29 -0500, "udutronik Tronik" <udutronik at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is viewed as ALPS Glidepoint device in Fedora's devices

> Driver "synaptics"

Why are you trying to drive an ALPS device with Synaptics driver?
This just makes no sense whatsoever!

Anyway, use tpconfig and stock mouse driver in X11. Kernel, I think,
will load in-kernel alps for you, but it's not a problem. tpconfig
should be able to set the pad anyway.

-- Pete




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