trackpad notap doesn't work at startup(?!)

Sat Sep 7 23:38:01 2002

On 7 Sep 2002, at 18:00, Rupert Morris wrote:

> OK, this one's a strange one. Please read carefully before replying.
> 
> I had YDL 2.1 installed, and have been slowly upgrading to 2.2
> packages via red-carpet. One of these packages must be the culprit,
> but I'll be damned if I can figure this out:
> 
> Trackpad notap does NOT work on startup, at all. I've got the usual
> flag set to notap in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, which is called by
> rc.sysinit. I also manually added two more instances of
> /usr/bin/trackpad notap to my rc.sysinit (and later removed them), and
> this did not work either. I also added that command to my rc.local, to
> NO effect.Once boot up is complete, I tap the trackpad, and tapping is
> turned on on my Wallstreet 292mhz powerbook. Grrr!!!
> 
> HOWEVER: Once I am logged into a session (Gnome, Fluxbox, console,
> whatever), as root I can execute /usr/bin/trackpad notap and it works.
> 
> SECOND HOWEVER: I can clearly see as rc.sysinit is executing, the
> telltale READREG(3, 0) READREG(3, 1) READREG(3, 2) READREG(3, 3) which
> is the sign that trackpad notap has been executed. Yet it does not
> have an effect (trackpad taps still).
> 
> So what gives? Any ideas? This is quite annoying.Why is the command
> 'working' but yet doing nothing?
> 
> At this point I'll accept wild guesses.
> 
> BTW, I have reinstalled pmud, no effect.
> 
Hi. There's a "howto" at this address:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/mous
e_buttons.shtml
that may pertain to your situation.

In short it is about commenting out a line in /etc/sysconfig/mouse 
that says "TRACKPAD_OPT=notap"; disabling this line would 
cause taps to be "ON", I suppose.

Perhaps there is a transition between two ways of configuring the 
trackpad while migrating from 2.1 to 2.2?

Cheers
/Rickard
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