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thewicken



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Location: Sheffield, England.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:42 am    Post subject: Touchpad Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:53 am    Post subject: What Kind of Touch Pad Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where do I enter this?
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Juanito



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:48 am    Post subject: Terminal Window Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:19 am    Post subject: Separate Mouse Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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