Mouse - touchpad question on laptop

[Mark Haney]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:10, John Warner wrote:
>   
>> I'm quite the newbie with Linux and I suspect this is in the
>> documentation somewhere but I seem to not be asking the right question
>> of google etc too get the answer. My experience so far is with a
>> dedicated desktop computer for FC4 with a conventional mouse. What I'm
>> planning to do is set up a laptop (Dell) to run FC4 dual boot. My
>> question to get to the point is the touchpad mouse on the laptop. When
>> doing the install (I plan on using X) what is the recommended setting
>> for touchpad in terms of a mouse? What I mean is, is this a two button
>> mouse, etc. Again please over look if this is obvious, as I said I can't
>> seem to find the answer in the docs.
>>
>>
>>     
> Hi, John.  I set up Mandriva on one laptop and Fedora Core on another, and in 
> both cases I did not need to do anything about the touchpad - it was 
> configured automatically.
>
> Anne
>   
As I mentioned before, the only issue I've ever found with laptop 
touchpads might be when you use a USB mouse.  I've had a problem where 
I've had to configure the mouse driver as a module and to load it after 
the USB subsystem initializes to get the touchpad to work.  And that is 
not always the case with all laptops.  Otherwise 'it just works'.



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