touch pad on compaq presario 1700?

[lwj]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 05:55, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> HÃ¥kan Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> Try adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to the kernel arguments in your 
> >> grub.conf entries.
> >>
> > No:-( it did not work on my compaq presario 1700.
> >
> > Regardes Hakan
> 
> Sorry to hear that.  Worked great on my Presario 2100.
> Have you checked for BIOS updates for the 1700?
> You might also search the list archive for synaptics just in the last 
> few days - someone mentioned a driver rpm to install.
> 
If you have a synaptics touchpad trying installing the driver. I used
the direction here:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=954&sid=fa6523c759e52792013c9a445b0f5296
The driver also available from this site in both binary and source form.