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av

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Registered: 2012-03-17

Posts: 32

Touchpad working without synaptics installed, how?

Hello,

My touchpad is working regardless of the fact that synaptics is inactive, as shown below, or even uninstalled.

* synaptics.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Does this mean that uses some other tool by default? If so, how can I find which one it is?

Thank you in advance. I sure feel like a complete idiot, yes.

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: Touchpad working without synaptics installed, how?

Is your touchpad fully functional? Typically touchpads have a default behaviour that emulate a standard mouse; so that you can install an operating system before loading the driver. This is similar with graphic card, they have basic functionality without their driver, because you need to see something before you install the driver.

rebootl

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Registered: 2012-01-10

Posts: 431

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Re: Touchpad working without synaptics installed, how?

Additionally, synaptics doesn't have a service file.

Use e.g. 'pacman -Qs synaptics' to check if it's installed.

Configs should be under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ .

Edit: command and paths corrected

Last edited by rebootl (2014-10-13 21:53:27)

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