Subject: Re: sticky mouse...
From: Ben Beachy (ben@slvccs.org)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 12:22:34 MDT
Greg,
Have you reviewed previous threads about "Switching off 'click' on a
PowerBook G3 trackpad" and "gnome freezes"? It sounds to me like you've
run into one of the more annoying attributes of the trackpad under YDL.
By default (at least in 1.0, I thought it was fixed in 1.1) the trackpad
is set to capture clicks and double-click drags as mouse events. It's
really easy to touch the trackpad and "click" without meaning to and
lock up your system.
Fortunately the solution is simple:
Get a program called trackpad from
http://xenu.phys.uit.no/~alvin/linux/trackpad_tool.tar.gz
compile it with: egcs -o trackpad trackpad.c
chown root.root trackpad and move it to /usr/bin
Then in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local add a line like:
/usr/bin/trackpad notap
(shamelessly stolen from previous mail list messages : )
Hope that fixes you up.
Ben.
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