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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:52:00 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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[4315892.898000] alps.c: Enabling hardware tapping
[4315892.963000] input: PS/2 Mouse on isa0060/serio4
[4315892.976000] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint on isa0060/serio4
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-but there doesn't seem to be any way to *disable* the hardware tapping.
-To
be continued
...
+This can
be fixed by manually installing a newer version of the synaptics driver
.
+The changelog for breezy's xorg-driver-synaptics package shows:
+<verbatim>
+xorg-driver-synaptics (
.14
.3+revertedto+.13.6-0ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
+ * Revert to old upstream version for preview at least, as the new was quite
+ catastrophically broken with ALPS. Fixed some, broke a lot (closes:
+ Ubuntu#14480).
+</verbatim>
+Anyway, instructions for installing the newer version from source are [here|http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76515].
+The new driver will move the mouse much more slowly than the normal PS/2 driver, so make sure you set the other options for scroll speeds.
+
+If you are using Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy") and aren't comfortable with compiling software, and you trust us, you can grab a pre-compiled version (for [x86] computers) from our [software archive|http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/software/ubuntu/5.10_Breezy/synaptics_drv.o]
+and copy this into the <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/</tt> directory. (It's probably a good idea to back up the existing file.)
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