[elrepo] touchpad driver availability?
Ahmed
ahmed.daud500 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 14:01:55 EDT 2013
On 08/23/2013 04:47 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I have to confirm that kernel update was creating touch pad problem.
>yum update kernel
Installed:
kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-358.14.1.el6
Updated:
bfa-firmware.noarch 0:3.0.3.1-1.el6
Dependency Updated:
kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-358.14.1.el6
Complete!
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Kindly, let me know what to do next?
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