distro for compaq laptop?

[Jason Hayes]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:54 -0700, Gordon wrote:
> Anyone know of a distr on which the touch-pad on a presario laptop 
> (about 1 year old) will work?  I haven't found anything yet...or is 
> there something special to add to the install to check for it?  I'll 
> eventually google for the answer when I get time, but was hoping someone 
> might know.
> 
> Thanks!
>    Gordon

I just set up my Acer 1804, which has a synaptics touch pad, with
Mandriva 2005 LE. The touchpad works very well with that distro and
required no fiddling. Mandrake 10.1, 10.0, 9.2 and 9.0 worked fine on my
previous laptop, an Acer 1705 (also with a synaptics touchpad).

HTH

Jason Hayes