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
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