I recently installed SuSE 9.1 professional on my laptop, Compaq Presario
XL1800, Pentium III. Just about everything worked out of the box, wired
networking, wireless networking, dialup using the ltmodem driver.
The only 2 things that I have not been able to get working under 9.1 as
of yet:
1. Power Save. Neither Suspend nor Standby work. he notebook is APM and
not ACPI.
2. The touch pad is too sensitive for tapping. The latest tpconfig
reports that the touchpad is not Synaptics or ALPS even though it is a
Synaptics.
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Jerry Feldman
On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:01 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
2. The touch pad is too sensitive for tapping. The latest tpconfig reports that the touchpad is not Synaptics or ALPS even though it is a Synaptics. Jerry, my Dell 1150 had a similar problem which I mostly cured by going into the Control Center , Peripherals>Mouse and fiddling with the mouse under the Advanced settings. My current settings are: Acceleration 1.3x Threshold 5 pixels Drag start time 195msec
Those three adjustments seemed to have the most effect. RA
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:59:50 -0500
Richard
2. The touch pad is too sensitive for tapping. The latest tpconfig reports that the touchpad is not Synaptics or ALPS even though it is a Synaptics. Jerry, my Dell 1150 had a similar problem which I mostly cured by going into the Control Center , Peripherals>Mouse and fiddling with
On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:01 am, Jerry Feldman wrote: the mouse under the Advanced settings. My current settings are: Acceleration 1.3x Threshold 5 pixels Drag start time 195msec The only one of those I had not changed was "Drag start time". They do seem to have an affect. There is a documented environment variable, MaxTapTime that you can use to adjust the sensitivity, but that does not work under the 2.6 kernel yet. http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
But, those settings do help and the tap is now somewhat usable.
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Jerry Feldman
On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:36 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Drag start time 195msec
The only one of those I had not changed was "Drag start time". They do seem to have an affect. There is a documented environment variable, MaxTapTime that you can use to adjust the sensitivity, but that does not work under the 2.6 kernel yet.
One BIG problem with the Dell 1150 trackpad is its scrolling areas along the edge. very sensitive and very wide. If I touch it wrong the curser flies somewhere so hard the pointer point is getting dull and bent from slamming into the edge of the monitor. Wish someone would figure out how to kill the scroll feature and tell me. I know other models of Dell have the same problem.. ra
On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I recently installed SuSE 9.1 professional on my laptop, Compaq Presario XL1800, Pentium III. Just about everything worked out of the box, wired networking, wireless networking, dialup using the ltmodem driver.
The only 2 things that I have not been able to get working under 9.1 as of yet: 1. Power Save. Neither Suspend nor Standby work. he notebook is APM and not ACPI.
This is disabled by default. See /etc/powersave.conf, at the end of the file. Better read the docs too. :) /usr/share/docs/packages/powersave E.g. you can read there that it still is beta software. I have suspend working (ordinary PC, no laptop), but standby does not work for me. Cheers, Leen
Quoting Leendert Meyer
On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I recently installed SuSE 9.1 professional on my laptop, Compaq Presario XL1800, Pentium III. Just about everything worked out of the box, wired networking, wireless networking, dialup using the ltmodem driver.
The only 2 things that I have not been able to get working under 9.1 as of yet: 1. Power Save. Neither Suspend nor Standby work. he notebook is APM and not ACPI.
This is disabled by default. See /etc/powersave.conf, at the end of the file.
Better read the docs too. :) /usr/share/docs/packages/powersave
E.g. you can read there that it still is beta software.
I have suspend working (ordinary PC, no laptop), but standby does not work for me.
Suspend and standby work on my IBM Thinkpad T41. Suspend did not work in the beta. Did not try standby. Standby uses 14% of 6 cell battery in the first hour. Jeffrey
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:45:03 +0200
Leendert Meyer
On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I recently installed SuSE 9.1 professional on my laptop, Compaq Presario XL1800, Pentium III. Just about everything worked out of the box, wired networking, wireless networking, dialup using the ltmodem driver.
The only 2 things that I have not been able to get working under 9.1 as of yet: 1. Power Save. Neither Suspend nor Standby work. he notebook is APM and not ACPI.
This is disabled by default. See /etc/powersave.conf, at the end of the file.
Better read the docs too. :) /usr/share/docs/packages/powersave
E.g. you can read there that it still is beta software.
I have suspend working (ordinary PC, no laptop), but standby does not work for me. Actually, it went into standby on a battery critical yesterday, but I still am having difficulty with the powered on configuration. I've read the docs. -- Jerry Feldman
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Jeffrey L. Taylor
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