Knoppix on laptop - trackpointer not working

03-12-2005	#1 (permalink)
Benny8909 Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 89	Knoppix on laptop - trackpointer not working I recently got a laptop (yesterday) from a friend. It's an old Compaq Armada and needs a new harddrive, so for now I'm just going to run Knoppix on it. The problem is that when I boot up KDE, my little eraser-head mouse/tracker doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I've tried xf86config with no luck

04-07-2005	#2 (permalink)
Morse Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 7	I had the same problem as this with Compaq Armada M700. I didn't resolve it but kanotix works and so does Luit linux (both run from cd rom).

04-07-2005	#3 (permalink)
Morse Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 7	I had the same problem as this with Compaq Armada M700. I didn't resolve it but kanotix works and so does Luit linux (both run from cd rom).

04-07-2005	#4 (permalink)
Morse Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 7	I think i read somewhere that this was caused by a bug in the bios.

04-23-2005

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Originally Posted by Morse

I had the same problem as this with Compaq Armada M700. I didn't resolve it but kanotix works and so does Luit linux (both run from cd rom).

I had the same problem (touchpad, as well as PS/2 and USB-mouse not working) with Compaq Armada M500 and
Knoppix 3.6 and 3.7 (but I saw 3.7 working on another M500).

I had it working by using the newer kernel in Knoppix 3.7
(entered "knoppix26" at "boot:" prompt.)

04-23-2005	#6 (permalink)
Benny8909 Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 89	I got it working...I booted with the 2.6 kernel

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