Re: Problems with touch pad in X

Unfortunately this is an old come and go problem of the PS2 mouse 
in the kernel.  My 2.6 kernel does not have the problem.  Niether 
did my old 2.4 one.  But yesterday when I removed my 2.4 modules 
and booted on that (2.4), found the same problem!  So may it be 
that loading some modules can solve the problem??!!

behdad

ps.  Under 2.6, you need to pass psmouse_noext to the kernel.

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bo Hansen Hansen wrote:

> I am the lucky owner of a Sony PCG-V505AP and want to run Debian Linux
> on it.
> 
> So far the installation has not provided any larger problems, but I
> cannot get the  touch pad to work correctly in X! The pointer responds
> to movement, but it sorts of just flicker around the screen clicking all
> over?!?! The only motion that seems to work is up+right? (Whenever
> another direction is tried, the pointer returns to lower left corner)
> 
> I've configured the xserver through "#dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"
> and the XF86Config.4 file includes the following...
> 
> <snip>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "Mouse"
> Option "Corepointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "Mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection
> </snip>
> 
> Each have a InputDevice entry in Section "ServerLayout"...
> 
> I don't know if you have any ideas for me - but if you do, I would be glad
> 
> Best regards...
> 
> B:)
> 

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Behdad Esfahbod		4 Shahrivar 1382, 2003 Aug 26 
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