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gav989

Member

From: England

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 54

[solved] touchpad not working properly

Hi all,

just installed arch with gnome 3 and everything seems to be working fine (even wireless internet!) except the touchpad on my laptop (hp pavillion dm-1).

I can use it to move the cursor fine, and pushing it in to click works as a click, but I can't right click and I can't tap to click, there is also no scrolling (2 finger or side)

In the gnome 3 settings, when I go to "Mouse and Touchpad" there is no touchpad tab:

when I run cat /proc/bus/input/devices:

.....

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event12 
B: PROP=d
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 10000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=260800011000003

So it is being detected, but there's something I need to do, any ideas?

I've seen "syndaemon" written a lot on the forums but I don't know what it is and don't have it installed, would this help? I couldn't find it in pacman...

Also, on this same laptop I used to use archbang linux (arch based) and tapping and 2 finger scrolling worked fine, so I know it's possible to get the touchpad working under arch

Thanks for reading

Last edited by gav989 (2011-11-06 12:01:35)

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peterb

Member

Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 27

Re: [solved] touchpad not working properly

You could try to install Synaptics

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

it's a driver for laptop touchpads. Maybe this article is also of some help:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [solved] touchpad not working properly

Hi gav989,

welcome to the forums. Please have a look at our forum etiquette, esp. at the "Pasting Pictures and Code" section.

The image you posted is too big, but only slightly, so I leave it there for now. You may want to look at these screenshot posting rules as well.

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gav989

Member

From: England

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 54

Re: [solved] touchpad not working properly

@bernarcher: thanks for info, have now updated, sorry for my negligence

@peterb: yeah that fixed it, feeling pretty silly right now....

thanks all, will mark as solved

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