I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
Best, Richard
On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 12:34 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
On what version of Fedora? What desktop?
Is this what you're looking for: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_touchpad_click ?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 12:34 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
On what version of Fedora? What desktop?
Is this what you're looking for: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_touchpad_click ?
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I need something a *little* more technical than this. I had it working on
after the first install of Fedora; lost it through working with the settings menu; tried to get it working with a technician on campus; re-installed Fedora after messing up the system because of hard drive encryption; and, where before the new install the touchpad was sending data, not it is not.
On 11/17/2013 08:22 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
I need something a /little/ more technical than this. I had it working on after the first install of Fedora; lost it through working with the settings menu; tried to get it working with a technician on campus; re-installed Fedora after messing up the system because of hard drive encryption; and, where before the new install the touchpad was sending data, not it is not.
Touchpads are generally foolproof for working. The only suggestion I have is to check for a touchpad disable switch. A little more detail would help as well. Model of laptop? Check your dmesg for any lines from psmouse or serio.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 11/17/2013 08:22 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
I need something a /little/ more technical than this. I had it working
on after the first install of Fedora; lost it through working with the settings menu; tried to get it working with a technician on campus; re-installed Fedora after messing up the system because of hard drive encryption; and, where before the new install the touchpad was sending data, not it is not.
Touchpads are generally foolproof for working. The only suggestion I
have is to check for a touchpad disable switch. A little more detail would help as well. Model of laptop? Check your dmesg for any lines from psmouse or serio. --
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery < richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 11/17/2013 08:22 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
I need something a /little/ more technical than this. I had it working
on after the first install of Fedora; lost it through working with the settings menu; tried to get it working with a technician on campus; re-installed Fedora after messing up the system because of hard drive encryption; and, where before the new install the touchpad was sending data, not it is not.
Touchpads are generally foolproof for working. The only suggestion I
have is to check for a touchpad disable switch. A little more detail would help as well. Model of laptop? Check your dmesg for any lines from psmouse or serio. --
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
How does one view the dmesg? When I try vi most of what I see is gibberish - @ signs with a few meaningless capital letters.
On 11/18/2013 10:21 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
How does one view the dmesg? When I try vi most of what I see is gibberish - @ signs with a few meaningless capital letters.
I probably shouldn't have used dmesg to describe it. It's the kernel message log. There's a dmesg command to view it and there used to be a /var/log/dmesg file.
There are several options to view the kernel message log: dmesg grep kernel: /var/log/messages journalctl -b _TRANSPORT=kernel
On 11/18/2013 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
http://www.linux.org/threads/acer-travelmate-x483-6691-root-localhost.4883/ mentions Fn-F7 which is probably the touchpad toggle I was referring to before.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 11/18/2013 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
root-localhost.4883/ mentions Fn-F7 which is probably the touchpad toggle I was referring to before.
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Oh! Is that what this graphic on the F7 is for - to turn it on and off. I didn't understand when you said "switch"; at the time I was looking for a physical switch as opposed to a key on the keyboard. Looking at the direction-guide doesn't quite work so well when i'm sort of panicked, but now that I'm more relaxed I see that it describes this disable switch.
Thanks!
I'm not sure I understand your problem but I did have some touchpad issues before and was able to get desired results from xinput. My problem was I couldn't turn the touchpad off because kwin wasn't picking up synaptic. xinput allows you to turn off or on just about anything detected by X.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 11/18/2013 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
root-localhost.4883/ mentions Fn-F7 which is probably the touchpad toggle I was referring to before.
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Oh! Is that what this graphic on the F7 is for - to turn it on and off. I didn't understand when you said "switch"; at the time I was looking for a physical switch as opposed to a key on the keyboard. Looking at the direction-guide doesn't quite work so well when i'm sort of panicked, but now that I'm more relaxed I see that it describes this disable switch.
Thanks!
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Hi Joshua,
Problem was solved.
Best.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Joshua Andrews woodguy552010@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not sure I understand your problem but I did have some touchpad issues before and was able to get desired results from xinput. My problem was I couldn't turn the touchpad off because kwin wasn't picking up synaptic. xinput allows you to turn off or on just about anything detected by X.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 11/18/2013 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691
root-localhost.4883/ mentions Fn-F7 which is probably the touchpad toggle I was referring to before.
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Oh! Is that what this graphic on the F7 is for - to turn it on and off. I didn't understand when you said "switch"; at the time I was looking for a physical switch as opposed to a key on the keyboard. Looking at the direction-guide doesn't quite work so well when i'm sort of panicked, but now that I'm more relaxed I see that it describes this disable switch.
Thanks!
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On 11/18/2013 01:16 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
Oh! Is that what this graphic on the F7 is for - to turn it on and off. I didn't understand when you said "switch"; at the time I was looking for a physical switch as opposed to a key on the keyboard. Looking at the direction-guide doesn't quite work so well when i'm sort of panicked, but now that I'm more relaxed I see that it describes this disable switch.
Some laptops have a physical switch near the touchpad to toggle it.