touch pad on compaq presario 1700?

[John Lagrue]

lwj wrote:

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>>>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.
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>>Is there by any chance a version of this anywhere for FC2? It looks 
>>neat, but the FC1 RPM starts throwing strange messages when I try it.
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>>JDL
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>I am running FC2, I was able to install the driver driver listed as
>synaptics-0.12.5-vm1.i386.rpm from that site:
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>http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPMS/
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>This page also indicates that it can be installed via apt.
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I've installed it ok via rpm.  But what incantations are then needed to 
make it operational?

JDL