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hey anyweb, maybe you (or someone else) can help me out with this one...

 

I'm running Debian 3.1 "Sarge" on my notebook...

 

It was running 2.4 kernel okay but I wanted the ACPI to turn off my notebook automatically... so I upgraded to 2.6.7...

 

Under 2.4 my touch pad worked fine (tap-to-click and scroll bars) now after upgrading... my touchpad moves very fast... which is okay because I just slowed down the mouse acceleration... but i can't tap or scroll now... I downloaded the synaptics driver... i installed it through apt-get and I also download the source... did my make and make install... added *what I assume to be* the correct entries into the XF86Config-4 file and restarted X... then I had no mouse activity at all.. so i just commented out the lines I added in the file... and it works okay now... because it doesn't load the synaptics driver...

 

If anyone has the XF86Config-4 file from their laptop running debian on a 2.6.7 kernel... stick it up... I can't seem to get this to work....