On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> I had something like this happen on my inspiron recently. I rang
> Dell, the chap had me boot into windows, uninstall and reinstall
> anything mouseish/trackpadish in the add/remove programs thing
> and reboot. I was extremely skeptical, right up to when it worked. :-)
>
don't have windows installed....
also, the problem happens on console with gpm too. and tpconfig said
and something about "0xa1 .... fail.\nabort"[1] the first time i ran
it, if i run it again it says "fatal: not a touchpad device".
darn...
> ATB,
> Wesley.
--paulj
[1]. out of memory, cause it scrolled off screen before i decided it
might be a useful error message.
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