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Laptop touchpad stopped fucntioning


Joined: 30 May 2004
Posts: 8
Post Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:28 pm Reply with quote
Well I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade and the double tap on my laptop touchpad stopped working.
I have a synaptics (might be spelled synaptix) touchpad, and a dell latitude CSx laptop. I know I have to change something, I just dont exactly know what or how to.

dell list of system specs - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pmac2cm/en/en_ug/specs.htm

Any replies would be helpful
View user's profileFind all posts by oneeyedelf1Send private message


Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 4
Post Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:21 am Reply with quote
I know that when I boot knoppix into kernel 2.6 my touch pad starts malfunctioning. I cant offer any other help im afraid but that may be enough to put you in the right direction.
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Joined: 15 Apr 2005
Posts: 17
Post Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:13 pm Reply with quote
I have this exact same problem with my Toshiba Satellite Pro's touchpad when I went from Knoppix 3.7 to 3.8.1. Anyone have a solution?
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Joined: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 51
Post Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:14 pm Reply with quote
I'm not sure if you are having the same problem as me but mine was fixed but
telling Knoppix it's a mouse instead of a touchpad. I tryied all the touchpad add-ons
I could find but still couldn't get my scroll to work, so I just gave up and put this in at boot.

psmouse.proto=imps
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bad 2.6 kernel = touchpad woes: a solution.


Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Posts: 2
Post Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:36 pm Reply with quote
I've been unable to double-click on the touchpad since kernel 2.6 .

Recently I read on a yahoo group [linux on dell laptops] that passing "psmouse.proto=exps"
to the kernel fixes it.
Code:
psmouse.proto=exps


I've tried it as a cheat code w/ both knx3.7 and knx3.81.
It's worked for me on my dell latitude cpi r400gt laptop.

good luck!
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