On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:02 am, you wrote: > I am very pleased to have Mdk 8.1 running on my Dell Inspiron 2500 > laptop. 8.1 detected my touchpad mouse without a hitch in installation, > for which I was greatful. The USB external mouse works great too. Is > there going to be a decent touchpad utility included in the upcoming Mdk > 8.2? Or are there other distributions that have it? My machine employs > a Synaptics Touchpad, and in Windows there is a very nice configuration > utility that lets you adjust tap sensitivity and all kinds of other > stuff. The tpconfig utility is very limited. It does not allow > pressure sensitivity adjustments to the buttons. > > This would seem to be a pretty important issue for laptop users. > Andy
Andy: If you haven't been there, try www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html and run a search on touchpad. There are several articles, one them specific to Dell portables. If that doesn't help, there's always Google. I assume that you've tried the manufacturer and came up empty. If so, you have run into a common problem with Linux: A lot of manufacturers do not furnish Linux support in any form. They do this for a variety of reasons -- the market is too small, they are afraid of open source (after all, it is a cancer), whatever. Although a lot of progress has been made within the Linux community at closing the gap, writing the necessary OS drivers often requires reverse engineering, and that is now a felony in the land of the free. HTH -- -- cmg
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
