On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:00 -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
Well, a couple of updates:
1) I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to
look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not
a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the
bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens
in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it
is.
2) the touchpad is...kind of working? After I sent the initial email,
at a friend's urging, I booted it with an Ubuntu live cd. It worked as
I hoped, and when I ran "xinput list" it was listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS
DualPoint TouchPad". When I reboot into Fedora and ran "xinput list",
it was now listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" as well and
working. I was able to configure it using the Settings Mouse and had
no problems. Then I reboot to see if it was persistent and when I did,
it was listed as just "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and stopped
working again. Another reboot and it was correctly detected and
working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's seen as one way and doesn't
work, then seen correctly and working?
Thanks.
Brian
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brian Johnson <voyager.106(a)gmail.com>
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
--
Running lsusb -v and lspci -v might help you decide if you have a
camera. it should come up with references to Video