Re: synaptics / alps touchpad

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Mar 31, 2005, Jonathan Berry <berryja gmail com> wrote:

> Does the latest FC3 kernel (770_FC3) have the necessary patches to
> work with a synaptics touchpad?

A synaptics touchpad, yes.  An ALPS touchpad, no.  The 2.6.10 series
still doesn't support the latter, only 2.6.11 does.

You can still use an ALPS touchpad with plain PS/2 emulation, but then
you lose all of the nice touchpad features related with scrolling.

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