Synaptics Touchpad problems

[Derek Broughton]

L.V.Gandhi wrote:

> On 1/30/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't surprise me.  Dell has moved from using Synaptics to ALPS.  They
>> both use the same driver, but the configuration can be slightly different
>> for the ALPS.
> I have dell inspiron 600m. Has anybody got touchpad working properly
> with (k)ubuntu? If so kindly help me what should be done. I have
> installed kynaptics also. I have kde3.5 and tried but without any
> sucess.

Assuming it's using the same ALPS touchpad as the 6000, make sure you have
ksynaptics installed and look
at /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.alps.  It worked for
me.
-- 
derek