touchpad of laptop not working after installing fedora
I recently installed fedora 25 on my compaq presario 510 laptop. I was using ubuntu previously. after installing fedora successfully when I started my laptop the touchpad was not working ( which was previously working well in ubuntu) so I uninstalled it and reinstalled ubuntu. I want to try out fedora so anyone can suggest me solution please?
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it is impossible to troubleshoot now that you re-installed ubuntu.
well, you could give us the output of Code:
synclient how old is that laptop? fedora is a bleeding edge distro and doesn't really make any sense on matured hardware. that's just asking for trouble. |
the laptop is around 8 years old with intel core 2 duo processor
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First, get Fedora 27 - F25 is old (by Fedora standards).
Next, Fedora has some quirks - the "tap for click" generally doesn't work until you are logged in; use the buttons if you have them. Look under settings for enabling the touchpad, and options (edge scroll, whatever). |
Typically I have found that you need synaptic or libinput driver support. I would start there when searching for a solution.
** edit - added libinput ** |
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stick with ubuntu LTS, or better even Xubuntu or Lubuntu. always LTS. might also want to try some dedicated old hardware distros. |
Runs on a Pentium 4 just fine - and with an *old* Radeon card. Slow, but runs.
Fedora is a lot more compliant than it is given credit for. |
^ ok i was a little off-handed and dismissive.
i didn't mean fedora cannot run on old hardware, but i meant: what is the point of running an outdated version of a bleeding (!painful!) edge distro on outdated hardware. if the intention is to use the hardware, i recommend something else. |
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