On Friday 14 May 2004 22:17, C Hamel wrote:
Interesting that, unlike SuSE 9, the Synaptics touchpad on my HP notebook is inoperable. Guess that requires a new kernel config? I wonder if the tools are on the Personal Edition.
Just installed it, and so far the only thing I can complain about is the touchpad & kdegames seems to be missing. <LOL>
Not sure about kdegames, but after installing 9.1 Personal on a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, I was able to get it to work by using Sax2 (You can get to it from YaST->Hardware->Graphics Card and Monitor->Change).
Select Input Devices->Mouse and then select the automatically detected mouse and choose properties. You can then select Synaptics as vendor and Touchpad as model. Click OK, and next time you log in the touchpad should work. It even picked up the four-way scroll button in the middle.
No messing around with the kernel. Shame the laptop had serious issues with ACPI locking it up solid. Aspire 1355XC... :-(
Hope this helps,
Jason I actually misstated the problem. The touchpad will work for navigating the
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 May 2004 18:51, Jason wrote: pointer but I have no choice but to use the buttons rather than being able to tap the touchpad for selection. (Actually, it isn't all bad because the touchpad was so sensitive on SuSE9 that I was constantly changing windows & then when I was typing in a word processor, or something, the changed focus would start loading other apps, and such, and it was a major pain, but sometimes I want the capability.) Also, Synaptics isn't listed in the mouse listing. As for kdegames... the kmahjongg is missing. That's the only one I ever messed with ...and now it seems to be gone. :-\ - -- ...CH Avoid doing business with 'The Link' ISP. SuSE Is All U Need Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqA6f1rD/PgIdojIRAhikAJ9XSvCLHdvToPwPGo0w4ZAYlM8/UgCcCNtU 1gzrb3lRLvV90af8J7iTxhM= =gk+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----