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