Hi all!
I have a new-to-me (i.e., used) laptop and am having a problem making
the touchpad behave.
It is an old HP Elitebook 8530p, and I THINK it has a synaptics
touchpad. But I don't remember how to get more specifics than that
on Linux, lspci, lsusb and lshw don't tell me anything helpful.
lsmod doesn't list anything containing "syn" or
"synaptics".
Anyway, I've installed C7 on the laptop and pretty much everything
works just as I expect it to, but even though I configure the touchpad
for two-finger-scrolling, it simply won't do it. It also won't do
edge-scrolling, and it has a mark along the right side of the pad that
seemingly implies it should do edge-scrolling.
If I could figure out which synaptics touchpad it is I might be
able to find out if it does or does not support two-finger scrolling
(like both my netbooks do).
Can any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is,
and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two-
finger scrolling?
Any advice will be appreciated, thanks in advance!
Fred
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On 11/11/18 4:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> Can any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is, > and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two- > finger scrolling?Start with: ?dmesg | egrep -i 'input:|mouse|synapt'
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:07:47PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 11/11/18 4:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >Can any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is, > >and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two- > >finger scrolling? > > Start with: > > ?dmesg | egrep -i 'input:|mouse|synapt'looking in dmesg output for subsets of that I find: 3.417773] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input5 and [ 3.090864] psmouse serio4: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5694], y [..5048] [ 3.121691] psmouse serio4: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.0, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd44791/0xb00000/0x20000, board id: 0, fw id: 504136 [ 3.121698] psmouse serio4: synaptics: serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0 and [ 6.646764] psmouse serio5: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad: E7=10 00 64, EC=10 00 64 all of which I take to mean it is an alps touchpad that is synaptics compatible. Any pointers on how to figure out what its capabilities are? (other than just trusting the synaptics driver to figure it out, which I've already tried but don't like the result). I've googled for some of those values, but didn't turn up anything meaningful (to me). -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long. -------------------------- Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) --------------------------------