keyboard joystick crazy

[87esir]

my dell inspiron 4100 has the mouse in the keyboard and the touchpad. It is a common problem that the keyboard joystick goes nuts and the mouse is uncontrollable. xp has a upgraded driver program that lets you disable the joystick mouse in the keyboard and leaves the touchpad operational and that fixes the problem.
Who do I contact about trying to get an upgrade for fedora that will allow this item to be disabled in fedora. As is when using fedora I have to leave my laptop on a solid flat surface and be very gentle so as not to disturb the keyboard mouse.
Is it possible to get someone to get an upgrade or can I simply go in and edit some commands to disable only that mouse.

thanks

[tashirosgt]

I don't have a Dell 4100, but from Google, i found:

The page http://www.simons.fi/touchpad.html
mentions modifying the source code of a driver.

A configuration program for the touchpad called tpconfig is mentioned on the page:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp4100/details.html

[87esir]

Thanks I'll take a look.

[87esir]

ok I have kernel version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. I didn't find a drivers folder even signed on as root in the root folder.

[tashirosgt]

Perhaps you only get the drivers folder if you have installed the kernel source.

[87esir]

ok I don't really know what you mean by that. I'm a newbie

I did go to view and checked show hidden folders/files

[tashirosgt]

The source code for the kernel and drivers is not part of the normal Fedora Installation. To recompile a driver or the kernel you need this code. (If you used the advanced search feature of this forum and search for kernel source, you can probably find out how to install it faster than I can relearn how to do it. yum probably has way of retreiving it if you have a fast internet connection.) Recompiling a driver (or "module") can be an ordeal. To do that you need to have the compiler gcc installed and , if not the whole kernel source, at least the "kernel headers".

I'm not sure there is a simple solution. Perhaps if you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, someone can suggest how to fiddle with it. Did you look at tpconfig?

[87esir]

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Is this the file that loads the hardware and or drivers? If not which one does?

Thanks, I desperately need this fixed or I can't use fedora

[87esir]

Ok I fixed it the old fashioned way. I never used or liked the trackpoint so I took the keyboard off and simply unplugged it.