[ltp] Touchpad not working (T41p), please help me

mukesh agrawal linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:18:01 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Ultimately, I would like to do the following:
>
> - Turn the touchpad on and off easily (tpctl?)
>
> - Enable certain gestures such as one finger tap for left mouse button,
>   two finger tap for middle mouse button and three finger tap for right
>   mouse button. My old Logitech New Touch keyboard with built-in
>   touchpad used to do this. Nice.
>
> - Autoscroll when finger is at an edge.
>
> - Things I haven't even considered.
>
> Is the touchpad hardware capable of these things? Are there drivers to
> take advantage of this?

Some of this is supported with the synaptics driver for XFree86.

http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/