[elrepo] touchpad driver availability?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos at plnet.rs
Fri Aug 23 16:47:43 EDT 2013


On 08/23/2013 03:24 PM, Ahmed wrote:
> On 08/22/2013 09:40 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> You could try to establish if it's a gnome issue by booting into KDE
>> and seeing if it works under than Desktop Environment.
>>
>> You could go back to a fresh base 6.0 install and try updating one
>> component at a time to find out what causes it to break. First just
>> update the kernel, reboot and test. Does it still work? Then try
>> updating Xorg, and repeat. Then gnome etc.
>>
>> Anyway, you get the idea - you need to eliminate some of the
>> possibilities to help narrow the search.
>>
> Thank you so much for your suggestions. i am using KDE as my default
> desktop environment and gnome is also installed in my centos box. when i
> login using KDE or Gnome, each time i issued the command
> gnome-mouse-properties. it effectively make the touchpad work.
>
> secondly, i already told that when i switched back to the old kernel, my
> touchpad works as intended. no problem at all.
>
> lastly, yeah i got the idea to install a fresh vm and then try to update
> the system one by one in the manner you suggested. After then i can be
> able to let you know what happened with those updates.
>
> Thank you very much

I do not think you can test touchpad from VM, it has to be bare metal 
install.

Just to confirm, is your problematic CentOS 6.4 system VM or bare metal 
system?


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