Hi everyone

I have a friend's laptop after a windows failure. I put Mepis 8.5 onto it and everything seems to work except the touch pad, which she really wants.

Knoppix 5.1 tells me the touch pad is an ALPS GlidePoint and the touch pad works fine in that (live). Mepis tells me it's Macintosh or something, and doesn't work. I've messed around endlessly in xorg.conf but with no luck.

My question now is: would installing Knoppix be a good idea? How user friendly is it installed? E.g. she uses Facebook, email, and looks at photos, so need to be able to call a photo viewing programme when CD or flash drive inserted. Also, if I do install Knoppix what version is recommended? The laptop is limited by only having 256 memory and she cannot afford to buy more.

Many thanks.