configuring synaptics touchpad on inspiron 6400

[jeff.w...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I've recently installed SLED 10 on my Dell Inspiron 6400 with a
Synaptics touchpad. I've been trying to configure it so that tapping
the touchpad is button 1, that the left button is the button 2 (middle
button on a mouse). When I did a xmodmap -e "pointer 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12", both the tapping and the left button changed to "middle
button" functionality".

I've done a bunch of research, and nothing comes up about chaning the
tapping & buttons. It's pretty disappointing, the windows driver for
the touchpad allows me to rearrange buttons, but I can't seem to figure
out how to do this in SLED. I haven't tried any other Linux distro on
this machine.

Thanks!

Jeff