Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help

What is really strange is we let the computer sit for a bit while we 
researched heaps of XF86Config's. Pulled out all the USB things we had 
tired. We then enabled the mouse at the console only first. dmesg | grep 
mouse was showing /dev/psm0 so we did moused -p /dev/psm0 and the mouse 
worked :]

XFree86 -configure
Made a new config but still said mouse not found, so we edited the config to 
this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
EndSection

Then ran the new config, complained about the mouse already being used, so 
killall moused and ran it again.

And that was it! All is working good again. Besides enabling the mouse at 
the console first, we did everything else before, that is what I do not 
understand. I'm just happy its working now.

Thanks

>From: Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help
>
>On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:44, How Can ThisBe wrote:
> >
> > I'm having huge problems trying to get the touch pad on a Dell Inspiron 
>8100
> > (with an ATi Radeon 7500 video chip) to work. This is both with and 
>without
> > XFree86-4. I have also tried to use a USB mouse without luck. We have 
>even
> > tried with a Wacom tablet! :]
>
>Checkout my example XF86Config file for my 8100 at
>http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/XF86Config.  Ignore the video card
>section as I have the G2G card.  Also, this assumes you're running
>moused out of rc.conf with the -3 flag.
>
>Joe
>
> >
> > This on a FreeBSD 4.6-Release system
> >
> > Any pointers would be much appreciated
> >


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