Re: touchpad on laptop
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:09, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't work, couldn't find any information about this in the laptop howto. Most laptop touchpads nowadays are supported by the regular PS/2 drivers. Try PS/2 or ImPS/2. The actual device output should be showing up on /dev/psaux. If that doesn't work, you can try enabling USB support in the kernel on the off chance that the touchpad is a USB device. (very unlikely) -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: touchpad on laptop
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't work, couldn't find any information about this in the laptop howto. /dev/psaux works fine on my laptop. How did you try using /dev/psaux? What I mean is, what are its permissions, what's in your gpm.conf (if any) and XF86Config or XF86Config-4? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz5 #1 Sun Jun 2 15:16:44 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands pgpYrV2kjLHIc.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: touchpad on laptop
On 20-Jun-2002 Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't work, couldn't find any information about this in the laptop howto. usually the pointer in a laptop is a ps/2 (psaux) device regardless of touchpad, pointer stick, etc. There is a chance it is a serial mouse, try /dev/ttySO or S1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: touchpad on laptop
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't | know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic | touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't | work, couldn't find any information about this in the laptop howto. I don't know about that one, but with a Dell Inspiron 7500, the touchpad uses the ps2 (or PS/2 in X) protocol and is access via /dev/psaux. An external PS/2 mouse is also access via /dev/psaux. (so, sadly, an external scroll mouse can't be used at the same time as the touchpad; but fortunately a USB mouse can be set to use a different protocol than the PS/2 one :-)). HTH, -D -- Microsoft: Windows NT 4.0 now has the same user-interface as Windows 95 Windows 95: Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot Windows NT 4.0: Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ pgpG55l5QoDfb.pgp Description: PGP signature
