TouchPoint on IBM Thinkpad works in console but not X
Pietro Cerutti
pietro.cerutti at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 00:38:46 PST 2005
On 12/15/05, TuxGirl <tuxgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
Hi!
>
> When I'm in the console, my mouse works great --- no problems
> whatsoever. However, once I start X, if I just touch the touchpoint
> once, the mouse runs off and hides in the upper right corner and
> refuses to come out.
>
> I'm sure that this is something with my xorg.conf, but I can't seem to
> find it anywhere, and I'm quite stumped at this point.
>
> I haven't been able to find anything about this in a quick check of
> google, so I was wondering if anyone here has any ideas. I started
> working from an xorg.conf that I was using on this machine on Linux,
> and I've been slowly modifying it to resolve the inconsistencies
> between Linux and FreeBSD.
>
> In the process of debugging, I've switched off all the X modules and
> switched my driver from radeon to ati (at least in Linux, ati
> generallly worked a bit easier, although radeon supported more of the
> nice features). I think I've got most of the unnecessary features
> commented out, and it's still doing the same thing. Here's the
> uncommented sections that define the mouse:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> EndSection
>
> I'm including the full xorg.conf as an attachment in case that will help.
>
Try modifing with these lines...
option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
option "Protocol" "auto"
>
> Thanks,
> ~Erin
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