[ale] Touchpad in Lenny KDE

[Brian Pitts]

Jim Moore wrote:
> Just re-sized my linux partition and installed Debian Lenny KDE.  Have 
> been running Etch with Gnome for months now but thought I'd give KDE a 
> try.   The install went flawlessly and getting wireless up and running 
> only required copying the intel files into /lib/firmware, doing a 
> restart and boom I was up and running.
> I can't find a way to control the touchpad.  I can move the cursor but 
> scrolling doesn't work and the sensitivity is way too high.
> If I go to the control center there's no entry for the touchpad in the 
> peripherals section, though there is an entry for a mouse.
> Have done some searching and not really found anything that worked.  Did 
> try adding the following to the xorg.conf folder:
>       Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"

Have you looked in /proc/bus/input/devices to see what kind of touchpad 
you have and /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see how X detects it?

-Brian