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jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

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[SOLVED] Cannot find trackpad on new Acer Cloudbook

Having removed Windoze and so forth, everything is working fine (WiFi out of the box with wpa_supplicant, KDE w/ external USB mouse) except that I cannot seem to find the trackpad.

lsusb shows nothing like a track pad. Not sure where else to go looking?

P.S. $149 new at Fry's. 2G RAM / 32G flash. Couldn't resist. If the trackpad could be made to work, it would be a really nice little travel laptop.

Last edited by jernst (2015-11-30 18:17:06)

bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot find trackpad on new Acer Cloudbook

Make sure you have xf86-input-synaptics installed.

Btw, your post gave me a good laugh. I had cloud to butt extension enabled on firefox.

mhoogland

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From: Amsterdam

Registered: 2015-08-09

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot find trackpad on new Acer Cloudbook

Check BIOS if the trackpad has been disabled.

jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot find trackpad on new Acer Cloudbook

@mhoogland: You get 0.9 points :-) No way to disable the trackpad in the BIOS, but there was a setting toggling between "basic" and "advanced". Switching it to "basic" made it work.