Touch pad on Dell i8100 no longer tap pad for mouse click

[Olu Akins]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:31 pm, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May  2, 2004, Gregory Gulik <greg at gulik.org> wrote:
> > I know this used to work on FC1 but under FC2T3 I can no longer give a
> > quick tap to the track pad as an alternate way to click mouse button 1.
> >
> > Is there a setting that changed or is this a bug?
>
> Nope.  This is even in bugzilla.  We're missing a package named
> `synaptics', that apparently isn't going to make it to FC2 :-(
>
> There was a posting about it to this list just a few hours before you
> posted your question, followed by a reply with a pointer to a working
> package.
>
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> Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
> Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
> Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}

search the mailing list for "synaptics", Paul Bender provided a link to a 
website with the synaptics touchpad and it works.

Olu