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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)
Intel i5-6500 / nvidia GTX 960 / Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 EU Motherboard / 8gb RAM / i3 wm
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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:
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@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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