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ctw

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Registered: 2010-02-13

Posts: 4

What if some hardware is not detected (dmesg, udev or whatever)

Hi guys,

I have only a short question: If some hardware, like a touchpad is not recognized by the hardware detection (I mean, if it is not listed in the output of dmesg or /proc/bus/input/devices), there is no way of using this hardware, isn't it?

Background:
I have a Gigabyte Booktop M1022M Netbook and it has a Elantech touchpad which *is* supported by the Linux kernel. The touchpad wasn't recognized by OpenBSD, Debian Linux nor Archlinux.
A friend of mine has a Asus EeePC 1000H and it is running Archlinux and it's touchpad works. It also displays under /proc/bus/input/devices as a "Elantach" touchpad. So I doubt there is some mechanism that prevents me from using it without Windos.

I think I'll replace this Netbook by one that is working properly, perhaps an Asus EeePC 1000H.

Thanks

Cr0k

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 174

Re: What if some hardware is not detected (dmesg, udev or whatever)

I don't really understand your issue, you just can't use your touchpad?

Maybe with xf86-input-synaptics it will works.. (pacman -S synaptics also works)

ctw

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Registered: 2010-02-13

Posts: 4

Re: What if some hardware is not detected (dmesg, udev or whatever)

Yes, cannot use the touchpad.

I want to know if my touchpad is not listed in the output of dmesg, is there any way of using it?