Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

["Johan Blåbäck" <johan.bluecreek@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
>  On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johan Blåbäck
>  > <johan.bluecreek@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>  > >  >
>
> > >  >  I don't think your /proc/bus/input/devices looks quite right - are you
>  > >  >  sure this isn't a pointer stick or something?  What's the complete file
>  > >  >  look like?
>  > >
>  > >  I'm not familar with the term "pointer stick".
>
>  a pointer stick is a stupid little button-like think in the middle of
>  your keyboard (usually at the intersection of the g, b, and h keys).
>  You push it in a direction, and the mouse starts moving in that
>  direction.  They were popular before touchpads were standard.  Anyway,
>  if you don't have one, then good!
>

Nope, don't have one of those.

>
>  > This is my complete /proc/bus/input/devices:
>
>  ok.  Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad?  Otherwise I'm out of
>  ideas, sorry...
>

Yes, I'm sure. When booting a Ubuntu Live >= 7.04 I get a synaptics
touchpad, detectable and all.

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