[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#635149: base: Sentelic touchpad is not properly supported. It is a common thing on laptops.

[Lugo Teehalt]

Package: base
Severity: normal

Sentelic touchpad is on many laptops.  It is not properly supported.  As you
know it is maddening if a touchpad is wobbly. Although the fspc package does
enable one to turn off the touch-to-click, (this does not persist through
boots) what is really neaded is the ability to turn off the touchpad when using
the keyboard.  Willy nilly the touchpad is difficult to use, a thing that
drives people mad.

What is needed is the kernel to autodetect it and then give full control of it.
System > Preferences > Mouse does not have a 'touchpad' tab in Gnome.

Debian Squeeze.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash