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denn1s

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From: Guatemala

Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] Trackpad only working as root

I just installed arch on my late 2011 macbook pro. Almost everything worked fine out of the box but I have an issue with the trackpad, it does not work at all if I startx as a regular user. If I start X as root it seems to work fine.

The only unusual message I see in X's error log is the following:

xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)

Please be patient with me as I don't have a mouse to edit the post properly or paste the full error log.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Last edited by denn1s (2015-03-08 02:30:49)

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Running: Arch - x86_64 - KDE
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denn1s

Member

From: Guatemala

Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] Trackpad only working as root

It looks like spoke too soon. The problem was related to the permissions for /dev/input/event11 it only has group permissions for group input. What was needed was to add my user to the "input" group.

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Running: Arch - x86_64 - KDE
On: Intel i5 - Nvidia 9600