RainierPeak Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 Hi! A while back (seems like it at least!), I tried Mandrake 9.1, which worked alright overall but was still a bit awkward to use, at least in terms of SuperMount. Now I'm using 9.2 and delighted to say that SuperMount works like a charm, and the sound works flawlessy, so I finally have a Linux distro that I can use for all my multimedia needs! Thanks MandrakeSoft! (Now if only a halfways decent jukebox [i.e.: RealJukebox or iTunes, but open-source] that didn't crash every 5 seconds [e.g: JuK] were available...) Anyway, the one big problem I have now is with the dang touchpad of my Dell Inspiron. It seems to 'click' all the time when I don't want it to. On Libranet I just installed 'tpconfig' (courtesy of apt-get) and it worked perfectly, but tpconfig seems to have no effect here. When I try running it as root, it says: Timed out waiting to read from device (is pc_keyb.c kernel patch installed?) Does this mean I have to recompile the kernel to get it to work? Has anybody installed tpconfig successfully on 9.2? Is there any other way to stop to stop the annoying tap-mode of the touchpad? Thanks! --Mike Mandrake Linux 9.2, Libranet Linux 2,8, Win98SE, Win2K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 I had it working on 9.2, but I don't recall having to do anything special. Are you sure that you have to run it as root? Here http://www.compass.com/synaptics/ is a link that tells you how to set up a startup script for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainierPeak Posted December 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 You're correct that you're supposed to run it from a startup script. The installer (whether RPM or 'make install') does that for you automatically. Sure enough, /usr/bin/tpconfig exists, the startup script was installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/touchpad, and there are links to it in the startup directories for runlevels 3 and 5 (/etc/rc.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d, respectively), exactly how they should be. Yet it's never being run during startup. I even tried rerunning /sbin/lilo to no avail (big surprise there). Any ideas why a seemingly valid startup script isn't running? --Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 I'm not sure how you tried to run it before and got the errors. Did you try service tpconfig start ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainierPeak Posted December 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) Nah; when it wasn't working as a startup script, out of desperation I tried the only thing I could think of: su'ing to root and running /usr/bin/tpconfig directly (which led to the error message I described in my first message), most likely just as you thought when I first mentioned it. What I was trying to say was that neither method (startup script or running directly) seemed to be working, and what went wrong with each (i.e.: nothing at all happening with the former, and the error message with the latter). Sorry for the confusion! So any ideas? Thanks! Edited December 30, 2003 by RainierPeak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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