[elrepo] touchpad driver availability?

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 08/20/2013 04:26 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 18/08/13 16:25, Ahmed wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have HP Probook 4530s laptop. i am using centos 6.4. when i download
>> and install centos 6 cd or dvd from a centos mirror. my touch pad
>> working perfectly. when i run system update it updates the kernel and
>> rest of the packages. My touch pad does not work. each time when i log
>> in to the box i have to manually run gnome-mouse-properties to enable
>> the touch pad. let me know that is there a touchpad driver available
>> from elrepo to overcome this problem.
>>
>> old system specs
>>
>> uname -a>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri
>> May 20
>> 03:51:51 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Current system specs (after applying yum update)
>>
>> uname -a>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
>> Tue Jul 16 23:51:20 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Ahmad Dawood
>
> Hi Ahmad,
>
> This doesn't sound like a driver issue to me as the driver works once
> loaded - it sounds more like the driver is no longer being loaded as it
> was originally.
>
> Anyway, to answer your question, no we don't have any updated touchpad
> drivers you can try. I think you are going to have to do some more
> digging to try to narrow down the problem before you can find the solution.
>

Ahmad, is it possible that you disabled your touchpad with Fn key, or in 
BIOS?

Also, try creating and login with brand new user, and see if that makes 
any difference.

Also try old kernel and see if it works on it.


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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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