On November 16, 2001 06:08 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > Dell Inspiron 8100 running woody. The touchpad is so sensitive > > > that it's almost unusable. I'm constantly clicking when I mean > > > to only move the mouse. > > > > You've got to use the following settings in your XF86Config: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" > > EndSection > > I have this section (with the exception that I have > "Emulate3Buttons" "yes")
Makes no difference - yes/no, true/false, 1/0 (iirc) are interchangeable. > > And you should disable gpm for your mouse on the console. > > I currently don't have gpm installed. I wasn't aware that it was > required for tpconfig to work. I interpreted the brief directions Hmm. I was sure that it _was_ needed, but given your experience I reinstalled tpconfig (finally in the Debian binaries) and tried again - viola! "tpconfig --tapmode=0" works great. > Does tpconfig work ONLY with gpm? Anyone know why? I assumed that Obviously not, but I'm not the only person who had gathered that you had to use gpm. > sensitivity. After a bit, I realized that I seldom if ever use the > tap function. I'm more comfortable with the buttons, so I turned > off tap under Windoze. I'm trying to find a way to do the same > under Linux, since I spend the majority of my time there. I'm still not exactly sure what tapmode does, but it doesn't disable tapping altogether - I still use it for left clicks - it just makes it manly (ie, insensitive :-) ). > A new version of tpconfig was just released. It supposedly works > under X but requires patching the kernel. There's a patch for > 2.4.2 but I'm running 2.4.14 and so far haven't been able to get it > to work. I just downloaded as-is from debian testing, and no problem on 2.4.9 Thanks for giving me the impetus to finally get mine working right - now to see if I can teach it that a corner tap is a middle-button click! -- derek
