I have one small problem with a Debian install on with a very old laptop (P266, 64MB, 800x600) which is badged as a 'Lifetec' but is really a Twinhead Slimnote 9TE. It has a touchpad, or 'pointing device', as the manufacturer calls it, which the spec says is a "TwinTouch II". It originally ran Windows 98 perfectly acceptably.
Some months back, I installed Etch and had it working well using IceWM, with the only problem being the touchpad not working. Plugging in a USB mouse was a solution, but it niggled that the touchpad would not work. It appeared not to be recognised at all with neither lshw nor lspci showing anything relevant and messing with xorg.conf got me nowhere. Googling for TwinTouch II produced no useful results with most matches being for a totally different 'TwinTouch'. Knowing it had worked under Windoze, I decided it might be quicker to reinstall it temporarily just to see if I could learn anything more about this hardware. Doing this proved straight away that it does 'just work' without any special drivers required and the 'device manager' showed the touchpad to be treated simply as a PS/2 mouse. Also, the Windows 'control panel' mouse configuration allowed me to set up and configure sensitivity, double click (tap) speeds etc. With a small hard drive, dual boot was not an option, so I have now started over again with Linux; this time with Lenny (2.6.22-3-486). Again, the touchpad is not working and is not listed in lshw. I even tried plugging in a PS/2 mouse to see if that made any difference, but with no success. And as before, a USB mouse works perfectly. As I do not think the is a problem with X as such, I next tried running gpm in a console so I could play with different mouse types using -t, but so far without success, despite trying all of the PS/2 related ones. So far, all I have found which looks useful are the following two lines in dmesg: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice lsmod showed no obvious mouse module present, so I have done modprobe psmouse and then tried again with gpm, but without success. I would be grateful for any suggestions regarding what to try next please. Many TIA -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ Debian on NSLU2 Slug: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
