On Feb 3, 2005, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS. >> >> > No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS. >> >> Err... That doesn't follow. My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics >> touchpad as part of the Dualpoint pointing devices. > Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS,
Interesting... Dell DualPoint is the way the pointing devices are described in that notebook's documentation, and I remember all the way from back when I purchased the notebook: I really wanted the two pointing devices. If you search the web for Dell Inspiron 8000 DualPoint, you'll get a number of hits referring to `Dell's DualPoint technology'. I don't see them referred to as DualPoint(TM), but I vaguely remember having seen something like that in Dell's web site back then. Maybe ALPS bought the trademark from Dell, or Dell hadn't actually registered the trademark, or they somehow managed to get the trademarks registered with a case difference (DualPoint vs Dualpoint)? > so in your case you have both a touchpoint and a touchpad, but it's > not called a Dualpoint in this case, because it's two separate > devices. Indeed, it's called Dell DualPoint. Sorry about the confusion. Not really my fault, I think :-) :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/