-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have an Aspire 5741 and the touchpad works fine most of the time. It does occasionally stop working but this is usually after some program has crashed. I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 with no special configuration options.
Heracles On 26/02/12 11:45, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm wondering whether anyone has had success at resolving Ubuntu > touchpad issues? My daughter and I both have dual-boot (Win7 64/Ubuntu > 11.10 64) laptops; mine is an Acer Travelmate 5740 and hers a Fujitsu > Lifebook S6410. the Acer has a Synaptic PS/2 touchpad, and the Fujitsu a > "Microsoft" PS/2 touchpad. > > I can go into some detail on my case - her laptop's not here, but I'm > hoping the fix will sort hers out as well. > > A USB wireless mouse plugged in to the Acer works fine; however nothing > on the touchpad works. > > The "Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server" is installed and after > installing tpconfig the Touchpad tab is present under Mouse and Touchpad > settings. I installed "gpointing-device-settings", which also recognises > the device and provides for its configuration. But neither actually do > anything. > > I've added 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"' to the grub conf, and the > touchpad works at the login screen, so I'm assuming it's something > associated with X, but I'm very inexpert in even understanding X, let > alone debugging it, so: does anyone have ideas? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9J1GsACgkQybPcBAs9CE8gkwCfaBv33bbhlKmoBIRVHeOMLFQE xy4AoK0iBZG36m/nYQAN/Aed4TpZb6R8 =25rS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
