Touchpad for Acer Aspire 3003 refuses to work

iq_frost · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

I've been trying to get this thing working for about a day and a half now. I feel like I've tried everything.
- I've read previous forum discussions
- I've tried changing /dev/input/mice to /dev/input/event1 and mouse0 (those are the handlers for the device)
- I've done cat /proc/bus/input/devices so I know the system knows it's there
- I've changed my kernel maybe a dozen times to include evdev and psmouse as modules and built-in
Nothing. I've done cat /dev/input/eventX and I'm not getting any response. I don't know what I did wrong in the kernel but I'm really really frustrated because I never intended to have to worry so much about the mouse! Everything else works perfectly. The only thing that comes to mind is that when I run synclient -h in X, it doesn't pick anything up but apparently that's normal. Syndaemon when I run it during the boot-up shows "Can't find display" (???) Could someone please help me out?

hypronix · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 10 Location: root@inferno

Is this for console/framebuffer or X? Anyway for me gpm handles the mice, I have the touchpad and a USB one attached... The touchpad is set - in my case - as imps/2 in xorg.conf, not sure what I did for gpm... one thing is, I disabled gpm once and my touchpad started taking single-taps as double-clicks. This stopped happening once I got gpm back in the default runlevel.

Especially if the system sees it then it's a matter of drivers I guess.

iq_frost · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

This is for X, and I've tried that. No dice. I think it definitely has to do with the fact that cat /dev/input/(everything I've tried) doesn't show any feedback when I touch the touchpad.

dagsorter · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

I have an Acer Aspire 1692 which randomly detected or failed to detect the touchpad on bootup.

I solved it by placing

iq_frost · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

No good. Maybe the touchpad broke because I tried using the LiveCD and it didn't work in it either. But if that's the case, why did it happen? I don't think I fried anything in there

lodder_ · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

i had the same problem

try activating your touchpad with a key combinatie on my laptop it's Fn+F7
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