[elrepo] touchpad driver availability?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos at plnet.rs
Wed Aug 21 12:09:48 EDT 2013


On 08/21/2013 04:41 PM, Ahmed wrote:
> On 08/21/2013 03:56 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 21/08/13 08:16, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>> On 08/21/2013 08:05 AM, Ahmed wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> 1- i never changed touch pad setting with Fn key or BIOS.
>>>> 2- By creating new user there is no change in the touchpad behaviour
>>>> 3- Yeah, when i switched to old kernel, touchpad works fine again.
>>> In this case you should file a bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com, RHEL
>>> 6, the kernel component
>>>
>>
>>
>> In addition to Wolfy's suggestion, can you also confirm which driver
>> is being used, and the last kernel in which it worked plus the first
>> kernel in which it is broken. We may then be able to find the
>> regression and provide an interim fix until Red Hat is able to fix the
>> issue more permanently.
>>
>
> touchpad working in kernel
> 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
>
> problem in the following kernel after running full system update
> 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
>
> because i am a novice centos user, kindly let me know how can i confirm
> which driver is being used (which command to issue at command prompt)?
>

Output of lspci command is needed:

lspci -nnk

should give you all the info you need, so copy part about touchpad.


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