pointing stick on dell latitude d600
Hi, after all I installed successfully 9.3 on this machine. Now the problem I have is, that during the install both the touchpad and the stick (the nice thing between the keys on the keyboard) were working, and I was able to use both to move the mouse pointer. But then, after the install, on the first login, the plugger discovered the "right" type of the device - ALPS DualPoint TouchPad - asked for root password to configure it. And after this "configuration" the stick works no more, as well as its buttons. The touchpad itself and its buttons are OK. As I prefer to use the stick, does anyone know a solution for this problem? I have found a similar post on the suse forums for 9.2, but no solution. Cheers Sunny
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 18:47, Sunny wrote:
Hi, after all I installed successfully 9.3 on this machine. Now the problem I have is, that during the install both the touchpad and the stick (the nice thing between the keys on the keyboard) were working, and I was able to use both to move the mouse pointer.
But then, after the install, on the first login, the plugger discovered the "right" type of the device - ALPS DualPoint TouchPad - asked for root password to configure it. And after this "configuration" the stick works no more, as well as its buttons. The touchpad itself and its buttons are OK.
I also have a Dell Latitude D600 and found the same problem. Not only that, but a USB wireless mouse that worked with SuSE 9.1 almost "out-of-the-box" (I just had to select a generic USB mouse), now doesn't work either. I tried to "Add new mouse" with SaX2 to no avail. Carlos --
From: "Carlos F. Lange" <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> Subject: Re: [SLE] pointing stick on dell latitude d600 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:10:21 -0600
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 18:47, Sunny wrote:
Hi, after all I installed successfully 9.3 on this machine. Now the problem I have is, that during the install both the touchpad and the stick (the nice thing between the keys on the keyboard) were working, and I was able to use both to move the mouse pointer.
But then, after the install, on the first login, the plugger discovered the "right" type of the device - ALPS DualPoint TouchPad - asked for root password to configure it. And after this "configuration" the stick works no more, as well as its buttons. The touchpad itself and its buttons are OK.
If anyone knows of a way to disable the touchstick I'd be gratefull. The well know dell fault has cropped up. In winxp disabling the touchstick solves the wandering mouse cursor. How do you do this in 9.1 TIA F
On Friday 24 June 2005 08:19, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
But then, after the install, on the first login, the plugger discovered the "right" type of the device - ALPS DualPoint TouchPad - asked for root password to configure it. And after this "configuration" the stick works no more, as well as its buttons. The touchpad itself and its buttons are OK.
If anyone knows of a way to disable the touchstick I'd be gratefull. The well know dell fault has cropped up. In winxp disabling the touchstick solves the wandering mouse cursor. How do you do this in 9.1
Upgrade to 9.3? ;) --
Hi, ,------ | From: "Carlos F. Lange" <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> | Subject: Re: [SLE] ? OT Re: [SLE] pointing stick on dell latitude d600 | Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:36:20 -0600 | | > > If anyone knows of a way to disable the touchstick I'd be | > > gratefull. The well know dell fault has cropped up. In winxp | > > disabling the touchstick solves the wandering mouse cursor. How | > > do you do this in 9.1 | > | | > Upgrade to 9.3? | > ;) `------ If you can do that in 9.3 it would be worth it. Are you able to non-candidly confirm ;-] F
On Friday 24 June 2005 11:24, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Hi, | > > If anyone knows of a way to disable the touchstick I'd be | > > gratefull. The well know dell fault has cropped up. In winxp | > > disabling the touchstick solves the wandering mouse cursor. How | > > do you do this in 9.1 | > | | > Upgrade to 9.3? | > ;) `------
If you can do that in 9.3 it would be worth it. Are you able to non-candidly confirm ;-]
The reason for my smiley is that both Sunny and I are having the opposite problem. We are NOT able to activate the mouse stick, or any other mouse for that matter. SaX2 offers you to add new mice, but nothing worked for me so far. More seriously to your point, SaX2 has an option to "remove" a mouse, which should solve your problem if the pointing stick ever shows up as a separate mouse on the list. Carlos --
On 6/24/05, Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> wrote:
On Friday 24 June 2005 11:24, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Hi, | > > If anyone knows of a way to disable the touchstick I'd be | > > gratefull. The well know dell fault has cropped up. In winxp | > > disabling the touchstick solves the wandering mouse cursor. How | > > do you do this in 9.1 | > | | > Upgrade to 9.3? | > ;) `------
If you can do that in 9.3 it would be worth it. Are you able to non-candidly confirm ;-]
The reason for my smiley is that both Sunny and I are having the opposite problem. We are NOT able to activate the mouse stick, or any other mouse for that matter. SaX2 offers you to add new mice, but nothing worked for me so far.
More seriously to your point, SaX2 has an option to "remove" a mouse, which should solve your problem if the pointing stick ever shows up as a separate mouse on the list.
Carlos --
Carlos, do you know how to disable the touchpad, without disabling the stick? :) I just hate this - the stick is kinda usable, but the touchpad can make you cry in the night. Sunny
On 6/24/05, Carlos F. Lange <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> wrote:
I also have a Dell Latitude D600 and found the same problem. Not only that, but a USB wireless mouse that worked with SuSE 9.1 almost "out-of-the-box" (I just had to select a generic USB mouse), now doesn't work either.
I tried to "Add new mouse" with SaX2 to no avail.
Carlos
I noticed, that the live DVD works ok. So, after comparing the X config files, I saw that the live DVD uses a generic mouse driver, while the installed 9.3 uses the synaptics driver. I checked all the options for the synaptics driver, and they look good, so I guess something is broken there. Anyway, I just set my X to use the generic mouse driver, and got the stick back operational. No the synaptics extras though, but I do not use them anyway. Cheers Sunny
On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:43, Sunny wrote:
I noticed, that the live DVD works ok. So, after comparing the X config files, I saw that the live DVD uses a generic mouse driver, while the installed 9.3 uses the synaptics driver. I checked all the options for the synaptics driver, and they look good, so I guess something is broken there. Anyway, I just set my X to use the generic mouse driver, and got the stick back operational. No the synaptics extras though, but I do not use them anyway.
OK, this was a good hint. While I was away I played with it and I found that _adding_ a generic mouse with SaX2 reactivates the pointing stick _and_ also my Labtec cordless mouse without disabling the synaptics extras from the touchpad. The cordless mouse and pointing stick only worked after restarting X11 (logout and login does the trick), but I had difficulty activating the mouse wheel in the cordless. By comparison with my old 9.1 setting I removed the lines: Option "EmulateWheel" "on" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "4" which shouldn't be there because I had deselected them in SaX2, and I also changed the number of buttons to "7". So, now my /etc/X11/xorg.conf has an additional entry that reads: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "Logitech;Cordless Trackman FX (USB)" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection (I figure the name doesn't actually matter) As for the synaptics extras, while I enjoy the "wheel effect" sliding my finger on the edge, I hate the tapping feature, because I always mess up something by mistake. To disable tapping I just change "MaxTapTime" to "0". Now, I'm happy. Carlos --
On Sunday 03 July 2005 17:40, Carlos F. Lange wrote:
As for the synaptics extras, while I enjoy the "wheel effect" sliding my finger on the edge, I hate the tapping feature, because I always mess up something by mistake. To disable tapping I just change "MaxTapTime" to "0".
Heh, that was it :). No more flying files and icons :) Cheers Sunny
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