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[Slackware]

Originally posted by: Slackware

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Which is fine... but it has the same PnP ID! Not even subsetted, same vendor (IBM). Grrr...

Sorry, it works fine with my notebook in Linux.

It's an IBM, isn't it? Try OpenSuSE and it ill work just fine..

I just realized that it WAS an IBM, as that is what you said it was, my apologies, OpenSusSE 10. will work on that.

Or i f you so choose, fedora core 6 should work with the latest updates.

If you wish you could just slap Slackware on it and make it work.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Which is fine... but it has the same PnP ID! Not even subsetted, same vendor (IBM). Grrr...

Sorry, it works fine with my notebook in Linux.

Works fine about everywhere. The issue is that if you have an OS build to support multiple platforms and include the plug and play for the touchpad, it will install on a desktop without the touchpad during PnP detect. All because they used the same PnP id for different devices. And the touchpad driver installs the touchpad control in systray, which becomes a craplet on a desktop (and confuses folks that are still trying to find the Any key on the keyboard.)

 

[Nothinman]

Works fine about everywhere. The issue is that if you have an OS build to support multiple platforms and include the plug and play for the touchpad, it will install on a desktop without the touchpad during PnP detect. All because they used the same PnP id for different devices. And the touchpad driver installs the touchpad control in systray, which becomes a craplet on a desktop (and confuses folks that are still trying to find the Any key on the keyboard.)

Yea, I understand what you're saying, although somehow the Linux distributions work around it.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Which is fine... but it has the same PnP ID! Not even subsetted, same vendor (IBM). Grrr...

Sorry, it works fine with my notebook in Linux.

Works fine about everywhere. The issue is that if you have an OS build to support multiple platforms and include the plug and play for the touchpad, it will install on a desktop without the touchpad during PnP detect. All because they used the same PnP id for different devices. And the touchpad driver installs the touchpad control in systray, which becomes a craplet on a desktop (and confuses folks that are still trying to find the Any key on the keyboard.)

What Nothinman means, is that linux distrobutions contain the drivers for the Synaptics touchpad and for ps/2 mice (hence, it IS an OS build to support multiple platforms, including plug and play for the touchpad and most everything else), but linux does not experience the problem you are describing.

My guess is though, this probably has nothing to do with the OS, and more to do with poorly written drivers on Windows from the vendor.