I've just put up CentOS4 on my HP ze4630us laptop, and the installation produced only two problems of note, both related to X operations.
1. The installer refused to allow 1024x768 resoultion for the screen. After install, manually setting the resolution in xorg.conf was no problem.
2. Erratic touchpad operation. This unit has a synaptic touchpad. I've also noted similar problems on my previous Gentoo install (also 2.6 kernel and xorg). Never really resolved this. When scrolling across a screen in a browser panel where there are multiple links, the mouse will trigger click operations all on its own, so it's difficult to reach the link you want without inadvertently opening another link that you scroll past. In googling, I didn't have much luck finding a matching problem; nor did I have much luck earlier. Most of the problems reported seemed to be "touchpad unable to respond to clicks", i.e. the opposite of my problem.
The installer generated the following mouse definition in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection
Has anyone else seen this type of problem with a touchpad, and does anyone have knowledge of a fix?
TIA,
On Apr 2, 2005 8:40 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
I've just put up CentOS4 on my HP ze4630us laptop, and the installation produced only two problems of note, both related to X operations.
- Erratic touchpad operation.
Replying to my own post. I did find a synaptics driver for the touchad, and CentOS4 has it, so I'm trying out the driver with the recommended xorg.conf entry from
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
The driver at least works; will report back.
Collins Richey wrote:
On Apr 2, 2005 8:40 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
I've just put up CentOS4 on my HP ze4630us laptop, and the installation produced only two problems of note, both related to X operations.
- Erratic touchpad operation.
Replying to my own post. I did find a synaptics driver for the touchad, and CentOS4 has it, so I'm trying out the driver with the recommended xorg.conf entry from
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
The driver at least works; will report back.
I'll be curious to see how this plays out. I've got a couple of Compaq Presario Athlon 64 3400+ and 3700+ laptops that seem fine with WinXP, but I find that I spend most of my time using them as an Xterm to talk to Linux machines. If all the various integrated devices are supported (nvidia video, 54mbit wifi, ether, firewire, etc) it would probably make one HELL of a portable Linux workstation.
Anyone here using a recent vintage Presario or HP equivalent w/CentOS 4?
Cheers,
C
On Apr 2, 2005 9:32 AM, Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
On Apr 2, 2005 8:40 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
I've just put up CentOS4 on my HP ze4630us laptop, and the installation produced only two problems of note, both related to X operations.
- Erratic touchpad operation.
Replying to my own post. I did find a synaptics driver for the touchad, and CentOS4 has it, so I'm trying out the driver with the recommended xorg.conf entry from
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
The driver at least works; will report back.
I'll be curious to see how this plays out.
The problem seems to be less sever with the synaptics driver. Now I'll need to tinker with the settings.
I've got a couple of Compaq
Presario Athlon 64 3400+ and 3700+ laptops that seem fine with WinXP, but I find that I spend most of my time using them as an Xterm to talk to Linux machines. If all the various integrated devices are supported (nvidia video, 54mbit wifi, ether, firewire, etc) it would probably make one HELL of a portable Linux workstation.
Anyone here using a recent vintage Presario or HP equivalent w/CentOS 4?
Sorry, no experience with Athlon 64.
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Collins Richey