On November 17, 2001 12:56 pm, Daniel D Jones wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:35, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > 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. > > Where did you put the command? In a config file or did you run if > from a terminal? Under 2.4.14, I get an error running it from a > terminal - timed out waiting to read from device. The kernel patch > is supposed to correct that, but the most recent one they have is > for 2.4.2 and the patch reports that it fails in two places.
That happens if you run it under X - if you do it from a console it seems to work - but if you install the tpconfig package (not the old "synaptics" package) it sets it up during 'debconf'. tpconfig will run from /etc/init.d. > > 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! However, the original "synaptics" module let me configure corner taps, and this one says my touchpad doesn't support them. Now, I know it does under windows (not that I can figure out any way to make use of corner taps in windows) so I think I'll try downgrading and seeing if I really can do anything with a corner tap. -- derek
