<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Bloom</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:kbloom@gmail.com">kbloom@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:59, Issac Trotts wrote:<br>&gt; Ubuntu mostly works great on this laptop, except that wireless access<br>&gt; required writing a script and by default the tap-to-click misfeature<br>&gt; is enabled.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wireless is working fine now, but I haven&#39;t yet figured
<br>&gt; how to remove tap-to-click.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; The touchpad is an ALPS GlidePoint<br>&gt; (<a href="http://www.alps.co.jp/index_e.htm">http://www.alps.co.jp/index_e.htm</a>), or at least that&#39;s what I gather<br>
&gt; from inserting some printk&#39;s into the mouse driver and running dmesg.<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is confirmed by cat /proc/bus/input/devices, which says among<br>&gt; other things<br>&gt;<br><br>I think it&#39;s a matter of getting the right driver for the right device.
<br><br><a href="http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/15/fixing-my-alps-touchpad-with-the-synaptics-driver/">http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/15/fixing-my-alps-touchpad-with-the-synaptics-driver/</a><br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78904">
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78904</a><br><br>also have a look at the xorg.conf files for my laptop available from<br><a href="http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Compaq_Presario_v2310us">http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Compaq_Presario_v2310us
</a><br><br>--Ken</blockquote><div><br>Thanks, that did the trick.&nbsp; I had to remove /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe to get the ALPS GlidePoint to show up as itself in /proc/bus/input/devices rather than as a generic PS/2 mouse.&nbsp; Then I inserted this stuff into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
<br><br>Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>Identifier &quot;ALPS&quot;<br>Driver &quot;synaptics&quot;<br>Option &quot;AlwaysCore&quot;<br>Option &quot;Device&quot; &quot;/dev/input/event3&quot;<br>Option &quot;Protocol&quot; &quot;event&quot;
<br>Option &quot;LeftEdge&quot; &quot;120&quot;<br>Option &quot;RightEdge&quot; &quot;830&quot;<br>Option &quot;TopEdge&quot; &quot;120&quot;<br>Option &quot;BottomEdge&quot; &quot;650&quot;<br>Option &quot;FingerLow&quot; &quot;14&quot;
<br>Option &quot;FingerHigh&quot; &quot;15&quot;<br>Option &quot;MaxTapTime&quot; &quot;0&quot;&nbsp; # was 180.&nbsp; Set to 0 to disable tap-to-click<br>Option &quot;MaxTapMove&quot; &quot;110&quot;<br>Option &quot;ClickTime&quot; &quot;0&quot;
<br>Option &quot;EmulateMidButtonTime&quot; &quot;75&quot;<br>Option &quot;VertScrollDelta&quot; &quot;10&quot;<br>Option &quot;HorizScrollDelta&quot; &quot;0&quot;<br>Option &quot;MinSpeed&quot; &quot;0.45&quot;<br>Option &quot;MaxSpeed&quot; &quot;
0.75&quot;<br>Option &quot;AccelFactor&quot; &quot;0.020&quot;<br>Option &quot;EdgeMotionMinSpeed&quot; &quot;200&quot;<br>Option &quot;EdgeMotionMaxSpeed&quot; &quot;200&quot;<br>Option &quot;UpDownScrolling&quot; &quot;1&quot;
<br>Option &quot;CircularScrolling&quot; &quot;0&quot;<br>Option &quot;CircScrollDelta&quot; &quot;0.1&quot;<br>Option &quot;CircScrollTrigger&quot; &quot;2&quot;<br>Option &quot;SHMConfig&quot; &quot;true&quot;<br>EndSection
<br><br><br>Section &quot;ServerLayout&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Identifier&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Default Layout&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Screen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Default Screen&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; InputDevice&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Generic Keyboard&quot;<br>#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; InputDevice&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Configured Mouse&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; InputDevice&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;ALPS&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Even without &quot;Configured Mouse&quot; it still detects my USB mouse.<br><br>One thing that&#39;s a little strange is that sometimes the touchpad shows up on event2 and sometimes on event3.&nbsp; Not sure how to deal with that...
<br></div></div><br>-ijt<br><br>