FFScroll in 10.5.6 iATKOS

Sorry if this has been answered, I've been searching through the forum trying to find an answer. If you can redirect me to a topic with the answer that'd be great!

Here's my problem: I installed up to 10.5.6 and was able to click via tapping, but I really like the scrolling feature. I downloaded and installed the FFscroll package for 10.5.6 but after I installed it I was unable to click by tapping. The clicking noise the buttons make are annoying as hell when you're sitting in a quiet class. Have I done something wrong, or did the installation go funny, or am I forced to decide between scrolling or tap clicking.

Thanks, Desroches.

 

Have you tried activate "Clicking" on System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad?

This works for me.

 

I don't think that option is available when you have FFScroll installed... Well I don't anyway. Just shows keyboard options.

I'm gonna remove FFScroll. I never use the scrolling function, and I want to be able to tap to click again!

 

After messing around for about 2 hours last night, I found out that 10.5.6 seems to remove the trackpad for some people.

I've got it back by downloading the Trackpad.prefpane, and double clicking it. So I now have the tap to click function back once again!

I'm not too sure if FFScroll can co-exist. I'll test it out.

 

I always find it a little saddening how well the trackpad scrolling works in linux otb and how well it doesnt in leopard.

Also - why does the sleep work fine in linux, and not in leopard?

I would run linux, but safari 4 rocks my world. Maybe chameleon 2 will solve these problems? Who knows- at least it should get a correctly proportioned apple on my screen at boot time (and hibernating!).

 

OS X is not supposed to run on PC hardware... Apple want you to buy thier hardware to run thier OS. That is why we have to "get around" certain things. A real Mac is EFI based, whereas a PC is BIOS based... all the different PC hardwares have different device ID's and vendor ID's, and work with slightly different tolerances etc etc - hence the varied performance of OS X on different hardware configurations.

You should be thankfull that it runs at all!

Linux on the other hand IS supposed to be run on PC harware.

 

Thanks for the lecture - I do have five macs, so I am aware of the hardware differences.

I guess my real wish is that apple really do launch their own netbook so I could stop with all the hacking around.