Dell laptop

[Guest cblake]

I have just loaded Mandrake 9.2 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop but am unable to get the touchpad and nipple on the laptop to work. An external USB mouse works fine. Any ideas on where to get a driver for this input device. As I am a linux virgin would appreciate some help.

[coverup]

Welcome to the board. How do you want to use the touchpad? Touchpad can be used instead of an external mouse, or together with an external USB mouse.

 

Touchpad should work with a standard mouse driver which you would normally use for a PS/2 mouse, but if you want to use more advanced features such as horizontal and vertical scrolling, enable/disable tapping, you need to download and install the synaptics driver from http://freshmeat.net/projects/synaptics/. With synaptics driver, even the middle button works on my laptop. I don't remember doing anything special for the nipple - it just worked.

 

Anyway, here is the mouse section of my X window configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You can cut and paste it in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/Xorg

# This section is for touchpad
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "on"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "on"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
Option "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Finger" "25 30"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
# Option "CorePointer" ""
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0007"
EndSection

# This section is for an external 3-button USB mouse.
Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse2"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons"
   Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

Also, the Server layout section is

Section "ServerLayout"

# The Identifier line must be present
   Identifier  "Server Layout"

# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens.  The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen.

   Screen "Screen0"

# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used.  Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".

   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"

EndSection

[Guest cblake]

Thankyou very much for your prompt reply. I will try this later today and let you know the outcome.

[ac_dispatcher]

See

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24750

 

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