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From: mike on 4 Feb 2006 06:20
Touchpad Drivers? Cirque Glidepoint Smart Cat 2G1 FC4

I need to make my Cirque Glidepoint Smart Cat S/N2G1* PS/2 touchpad
work with linux. Current attempt is with Fedora Core 4,
but had the same problems with all the others I've tried.

I have a multi-boot system. I accomplish this by swapping out
the entire hard drive.

Problem is the mouse. Turning off the computer does NOT
power down the keyboard and mouse. The windows driver
puts the touchpad in a mode that linux does not understand,
so when I boot linux, moving the mouse brings up windows
and flies all over the place.

The obvious solution is to crawl under the table, shutdown
the UPS, wait, restart the ups and reboot. But this is getting old.

I need either a mouse driver that understands the Cirque protocol,
or a software way to reset the mouse when linux boots.

As soon as I get this fixed, I'm gonna want to implement the scrolling
features of the touchpad. This is gonna need a driver.

Google has let me down.

Ideas/suggestions?
Nope, not willing to give up my Cirque.

While I'm on the subject, my next linux conversion project is gonna
need a mouse driver for the touchpad that's built into the ALPS Glidepoint
keyboard model MGL FCCID CWTCMEASC.

pointers appreciated.

Thanks, mike
From: John-Paul Stewart on 4 Feb 2006 10:41
mike wrote:
> Touchpad Drivers? Cirque Glidepoint Smart Cat 2G1 FC4
>
> I need to make my Cirque Glidepoint Smart Cat S/N2G1* PS/2 touchpad
> work with linux. Current attempt is with Fedora Core 4,
> but had the same problems with all the others I've tried.

What mouse driver are you using? X has supported touchpads for years.
You should be specifying:

Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2"

in the mouse section of your X config file (probably /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
but I'm not entirely sure where Fedora puts it). If you're using "PS/2"
or "Auto" for your protocol, you might get unpredictable behaviour.
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