Install on Dell Inspiron 8600 - Pb with Touchpad, HAL

Eric SCHAEFFER eschaeffer at emahoo.com
Mon Oct 4 21:19:07 UTC 2004


Le lundi 04 octobre 2004 à 13:51 -0700, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:32:03PM +0200, Eric SCHAEFFER wrote:
> 
> > The touchpad gives me also troubles.
> > It seems to be an "ALPS" touchpad (according to xfree86-driver-synaptics
> > documentation). I've modified synaptics configuration according to the
> > doc (use the event protocol and the event device), but the driver
> > doesn't find any touchpad device.
> > Does the kernel support ALPS touchpad devices ? It must be compiled with
> > some options (and maybe patched).
> 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1721

Bouhou... not for warty then ? :'(

> > There's another problem: HAL doesn't work. It seems to start but... Hal
> > device manager doesn't work saying:
> 
> Is hald running?

ps aux | grep hal => nothing (just one thing: my ps ;).
No, it doesn't seem to run.
What output program do you want ?

Eric

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