[ale] turnabout!!

[Geoffrey]

Van Loggins wrote:
> I still prefer the less than popular eraser-top type mouse pointers over 
> touchpads. I guess this is why I like IBM Thinkpads so much.
> 
> Good to hear that this less than desirable trackpad behavior is easily 
> fixed under linux and not so easily fixed under windows. :-D

I've just installed the driver on my hp laptop and it's quite nice.  You 
can control pretty much everything.  If you have both the 
'mini-joystick' and the touchpad, you can disable the touchpad and 
continue to use the mini-joystick.  At least that's what the docs say, 
I've not tried it as I don't have such a beast.

I've never gotten used to the 'tap' functionality of the touchpad 
though.  I always find myself typing along and all of a sudden a window 
appears because I grazed across the pad.

The nice thing about this hp laptop is that it has a button which will 
activate/deactivate the pad.

This driver also enables the scroll function on the pad which is kinda 
nice too.

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Until later, Geoffrey