On Wednesday 27 August 2014 18:46:26 Brian Johnson wrote:
Hello all,
I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age
and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be
smooth.
And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless,
but that seems to have been fixed for some time.
Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my
trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck.
For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use
the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for
scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and
tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under
"mouse &
touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options.
Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint
TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything.
I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is
3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64.
I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get
a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Brian
To get the two button emulation working on my DELL Vostro with my logitech
wireless mouse I have the following:
[gary@gary ~]$ cat .kde/Autostart/3button
#!/bin/bash
X='/usr/bin/xinput'
for F in `$X list|grep Logitech|cut -d = -f 2|cut -c1-3` ; do
$X set-prop $F "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
done
[gary@gary ~]$
It works on my touchpad without me having to do anything.