[Il Duce]

Ok - just picked up my new 12 inch ibook today, and it kicks arse. It is replacing my 4 year old 500 g3, which is a little long in the tooth.

So far, pretty much everything looks ok. No dead pixels, drive works (although it is kinda noisy sometimes), everything else seems to be functioning. My only major gripe is that the bottom half of the ibook is slightly skewed (i can't get the back left and front right corners to touch my desk at the same time without flexing the case. This makes typing a royal pain because the ibook keeps rocking backwards and forwards). I'm wondering whether this is worthy of a call to apple, or whether it will sort itself out over time.

Anyway, the major problem now is that my clean tiger install (a retail copy, not the restore discs) has failed to install my trackpad. The trackpad was working fine before the install (and yes, the two finger scrolling is awesome ), but it is no longer available in system preferences.

A spotlight search for trackpad in system preferences tells me that the trackpad tab is hidden because I do not have a trackpad installed on my system. However, there is a reference to the trackpad in the USB section of system profiler.

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? I don't want to do another install unless I have to.

Thanks in advance

Edit - I've just realised that I had my usb mouse plugged in during installation. That may have had something to do with it.

[Eriamjh]

Why would you install the retail copy of Tiger if it came with it on the restore disks?

Was the retail copy 10.4.0 or 10.4.2 (which is probably what was on the restore disks)?

Go back to the restore.

[OpenStep]

Eriamjh is right, use the restore disks that came with the unit. 10.4 retail doesn't have the needed trackpad drivers for the latest revision of iBooks. The restore disks have a specialized build of Tiger with the included drivers.

[Il Duce]

Thanks for the replies - everything is working fine now.