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Old 01-02-2011, 02:28 AM   #1
sjampoo
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Touchpad not working in X for non-root user


Hello,

Just recently discovered that for a non-root user the touchpad on my Acer laptop ( Aspire 5720z fyi ) isn't working in X ( KDE or XFCE ). It does work in in tty (at login) and for root it works in both environments.

I'm running 13.1 x64 on it, with the normal security patches via slackpkg. Didn't notice before since I normally use a mouse (and thus I do like the touchpad being disabled so I don't 'tap' away the cursur while typing).

With the recent holidays (with family visits and all) I took the laptop on my lap,.and voila: no trackpad movement.. I did some searching allready, but this problem seems to be solved since a while, and isn't supposed to be in 13.1

FROM RELEASE NOTES Piter Punk for udev and
slackpkg work, updating the shadow password system, writing the initial
patch for polkit to use a shadow authentication backend so we could
consider using KDE 4.4.3, and making tap-to-click work with Synaptics
touchpads out-of-the-box,)


( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-732856/ )


/etc/modprobe.d/psmouse(.conf) allready has this commented line:

#options psmouse proto=imps

did I bork my system myself?
 
Old 01-02-2011, 08:51 PM   #2
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Maybe you've read the link below, all the way ...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...uchpad-851161/

good luck
 
  


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