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thewicken
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 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:42 am Post subject: Touchpad |
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I have a Dell Latitude CPI
The machine is running fine but so far I just can not get the touchpad to work!
Has anyone got any ideas?
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Juanito
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: What Kind of Touch Pad |
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What kind of touch pad do you have? If it is Synaptics or Alps then I believe I can help.
Type "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" to see what touch pad DSL-N thinks you have. |
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thewicken
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Juanito
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: Terminal Window |
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In a terminal window.
Either click on the "ATerm" icon in the top left-hand corner of the desk top or right-click on the desk top and select one of the X terminal options (it doesn't matter which one). |
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roberts
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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My builtin Synaptics 2 Button Touchpad works fine on a Sharp MM10
I also tested an extenal ALPS 2 button glidepoint touchpad and it too works fine.
The Synaptics .xserverrc
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -screen 1024x768 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null
The external ALPS .xserverrc
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -2button -mouse /dev/ttyS0 -screen 1024x768 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null |
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thewicken
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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The responce
I: Bus=001 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
Now, to me this looks like the first part is refering to the keyboard the second to the PS/2 mouse, no sign of the touch pad? |
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Juanito
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: Separate Mouse |
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Does your laptop have a separate mouse? If so, does this mouse work under DSL-N?
The reason I ask is that I am not sure if DSL-N sees your touch pad as an "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" or you have a separate mouse attached.
You could try "modprobe evdev" in a terminal window and then repeat "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" to see if the touch pad appears. |
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thewicken
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Amazing just how the simple stuff sometimes provideds the answer. As the laptop is and old machine I had a PS/2 mouse plugged in to save on the USB ports. I (on your suggestion) replaced the mouse with a USB mouse, ebooted and WOW both the touch pad and USB mouse worked.
Thanks very much! |
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