[wplug] trackpad on powerbook

[John Harrold]

I'm replying to myself because this is a response to many different
suggestions. The first thing I tried was based on a suggestion from someone
on the debian-powerpc mailing list. That individual said:
 
| It happened to me once on my ibook g4: mouse didn't work. The only              
| solution I had found (but I'm not able to reproduce since it never              
| happened anymore) was to reset PRAM, pressing apple-alt-p-r during              
| boot.

This didn't work. 

Next for the live cd's. I tried the ubuntu (built 2005.01.20) and I got the
same result. The mouse didn't work, but I eventually opened a terminal to
check what the xorg.conf file was looking for. The snyaptics trackpad
setting was pointed to /dev/psaux. Billings mentioned that the correct
device should be /dev/adbmouse  (or something similar). It seems  strange
that a linux live cd would be pointing to an incorrect device, so I'm not
sure what to think here. There is a /dev/adb, but this doesn't work either.
I tried to cat /dev/adb and I got an input/output error. 

So any other thoughts would be useful.

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