Laptop touchpad problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 19:28, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > There are a couple of projects for configuring touchpads, but they
> > are for synaptic touchpads.  I think those are on newer laptops
> > than this. My newer laptop has a synaptic touchpad, but there FnF7
> > toggles it on and off.  I was hoping that someone knew of a package
> > that could intercept the signal somehow.  Ah well....
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Anne
>
> One thing I have done in the past was to use GPM as the mouse
> driver. It has a mode were it creates a device that X uses as
> its mouse, and then GPM talks to the mouse itself. You can change
> the mouse device that GPM reads "on the fly", or have it read
> more then one mouse, and combined them to one output. It will
> handle mice with different protocols, and convert as necessary.
>
That sounds *wayyy* too complicated for me, Mikkel :-)

Anne