Touchpad does not work anymore.

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-12 01:05:34

The touchpad of my Acer Aspire 1410 is not working anymore and i wonder why.

I closed my laptop and came back like 30 mins. after and it was not working already.

I have HAL enabled and the synaptics-touchpad installed, i tried to clean it, restart X, pacman -Syu and reboot and nothing did it.

Is there a way to return it to normal? How?

And if it died... know of any way to control te rodent using the Keyboard?

Thanks.

davidgurvich · 2010-02-12 01:32:02

Look for errors in Xorg.0.log and in Xorg.0.log.old. If there's nothing obvious there then boot with a live cd that has a graphical user interface to make sure your touchpad is not physically broken. I like Parted Magic and Puppy is also good.

Last edited by davidgurvich (2010-02-12 01:32:21)

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-12 03:06:31

(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.3, module version = 1.2.1
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.2.1
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 0
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right middle double triple
(**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
(**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
(**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Sleep Button
(**) Sleep Button: always reports core events
(**) Sleep Button: Device: "/dev/input/event4"

Seems thats the part of the log file what has something to do with the touchpad, but i dunno if something is wrong.
Now im searching a Live CD...

davidgurvich · 2010-02-12 03:40:18

That looks like the touchpad is detected just fine. Is hal and dbus installed and running?

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-13 02:30:58

Yeah,

┌─[yamifrankc]──(~)
         └─| % > pac -Qs hal
Password: 
local/hal 0.5.14-1
    Hardware Abstraction Layer
local/hal-info 0.20091130-1
    Hardware Abstraction Layer information files

┌─[yamifrankc]──(/)
└─| % > pac -Qs dbus
local/dbus 1.2.16-1
    Freedesktop.org message bus system
local/dbus-core 1.2.16-1 (base)
    Freedesktop.org message bus system
local/dbus-glib 0.82-2
    GLib bindings for DBUS
local/eggdbus 0.6-1
    Experimental D-Bus bindings for GObject

Then i restarted them using /etc/rc.d/{hal,dbus} restar. They to it without problems and still cant move it.

davidgurvich · 2010-02-13 05:23:26

Can you use an external mouse? I'm curious if there is a mouse driver installed.

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-13 06:15:14

Yes, an USB one.
I cant find any of my old LiveCDs so ill download one tomorrow to try the touchpad there.

toad · 2010-02-13 07:20:44

Seems obvious, but sometimes worth asking. Have you tried a different OS (live CD) to see whether it isn't your hardware?

cschep · 2010-02-13 21:31:14

This is also seemingly obvious, but check to make sure the touchpad didn't get disabled through some sort of arcance key combination? Fn+F7 or something?

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-14 21:56:22

Use Mandriva, Chakra and Mint CDs, no one worked.
I think its dead.

So... for the other thing i asked, how can i control the mouse using the keyboard?
Thanks

toad · 2010-02-14 23:44:04

Depends on your DE/WM. In KDE I know how to use the numpad which is cumbersome on a laptop. You might be able to do something with keybindings, though.

Unless you've got some time to burn I would have thought you'll be happier with a new touchpad or an external rodent

EDIT:

Perhaps your CMOS battery died during that half an hour - weirder things have happened. Have you checked the BIOS?

Last edited by toad (2010-02-14 23:45:07)

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-15 18:42:06

The WM is Xmonad.
A new touchpad, how could that be done, or change the CMOS battery?
An external one, humm yeah, but then my parents will realize i broke it and wont let me buy a desktop in a month .
Ill check the bios the next time i boot.

toad · 2010-02-15 23:58:28

YamiFrankc wrote:

A new touchpad, how could that be done, or change the CMOS battery?

Download the manual and get a set of screwdrivers

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-17 18:02:50

Oh well, ill try to do it, i hope i dont mess it up more.
Thanks .

YamiFrankc · 2010-02-19 03:24:45

Just now, while i was trying to reach some text to copy it, my instincts made me use the touchpad, and it magically worked.
I hope it don't stop working anymore.

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And stoped working again, now i think it must have a short circuit.

Last edited by YamiFrankc (2010-02-19 17:47:30)

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