Laptop Hints

[Christopher Hicks]

We've gotten an Averatec Athlon-based laptop on loan to play with.  I've 
been very pleased with how well Fedora Core 2 has gone onto this laptop 
and recognized everything with no effort.  I've just got two problems that 
I haven't been able to find any coherent answers to.

(1) I want (yes want) to enable click-tapping on the touchpad.  I've got 
this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/touchpad:

     /usr/bin/tpconfig --tapmode=1

But this gets logged:

 	Oct 20 00:30:21 dsi touchpad: fatal: Could not open PS/2 Port [/dev/psaux]

I've gotten the same thing on the command line even if I've done init 3 so 
there must be something rather whacked.

(2) What should I do to lighten what's required to run X to something less 
resource intensive?

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</chris>

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