<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> One thing that's a little strange is that sometimes the touchpad<br>> shows up on event2 and sometimes on event3. Not sure how to deal
<br>> with that...<br><br>You need "configured mouse" to deal with external mice that you may plug<br>in to a USB port.<br><br>As for the event2/event3 thing, it may be that you have an external<br>mouse plugged in that's getting event2 sometimes. There may be other
<br>factors. You can always write udev rules to symlink the built-in<br>devices to fixed names.</blockquote><div><br>OK, this is going in the right direction. I created a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/40-personal.rules with the following contents:
<br><br><br># <br># <a href="http://mail.kdewebdev.org/pipermail/linuxr3000/2005-March/000181.html">http://mail.kdewebdev.org/pipermail/linuxr3000/2005-March/000181.html</a><br># <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1353267">
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1353267</a><br># <a href="http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html">http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html</a><br># <br><br># touchpad<br>BUS=="serio",SYSFS{description}=="i8042 Aux-3 Port", KERNEL=="event?",SYMLINK="input/touchpad"
<br><br># USB mouse<br>BUS=="usb",KERNEL=="mouse?", SYMLINK="input/usb_mouse"<br><br><br>and changed the relevant lines of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to <br><br> Option "Device" "/dev/input/usb_mouse"
<br><br>and <br><br> Option "Device" "/dev/input/touchpad"<br><br></div><br></div><br>Now when I reboot, the USB mouse works but the touchpad does nothing. If I then do ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X, it all works perfectly with no tap-to-click. I can live with this, though I'd be curious if there's a way to make it work without this little kludge.
<br><br>Issac<br><br><br>