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5102WLMi touchpad haig 06-12-2008
Posted by haig on June 12, 2008, 3:10 pm
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 Hi

My Acer aspire 5102WLMi has some problems with the touchpad. In Debian Linux
it just doesn't work. If I boot Windows XP I can move the pointer true the
touchpad for several seconds on starting up Windows, after that it does
nothing. So I think it isn't broken, but why does it stop working in XP.
And why doesn't it even start working in the beginning in Linux?

Posted by BillW50 on June 12, 2008, 6:01 pm
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 haig typed on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:10:00 +0200:
> Hi
>
> My Acer aspire 5102WLMi has some problems with the touchpad. In
> Debian Linux it just doesn't work. If I boot Windows XP I can move
> the pointer true the touchpad for several seconds on starting up
> Windows, after that it does nothing. So I think it isn't broken, but
> why does it stop working in XP. And why doesn't it even start working
> in the beginning in Linux?

I dunno... usually if a piece of hardware fails under two different OS,
it is usually the hardware. The only other thing I can think of is the
following:

1) You replaced the original driver.
2) You use another pointer device at some point and now the OS is
confused with the other driver. I'd would disable the other one or
remove it.

It doesn't make since that both Linux and Windows won't work (yes I know
Windows works for a few seconds, but that is still faulty) if it is
software related. Is it a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, maybe try their
website and get the latest driver. Although make sure you have a copy of
the one that came with your computer first. You can use this if you
would like.

DriverBackup! (free)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/

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Bill
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MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)


Posted by haig on June 13, 2008, 2:42 pm
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> I dunno... usually if a piece of hardware fails under two different OS,
> it is usually the hardware. The only other thing I can think of is the
> following:
>
> 1) You replaced the original driver.
> 2) You use another pointer device at some point and now the OS is
> confused with the other driver. I'd would disable the other one or
> remove it.
>
> It doesn't make since that both Linux and Windows won't work (yes I know
> Windows works for a few seconds, but that is still faulty) if it is
> software related. Is it a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, maybe try their
> website and get the latest driver. Although make sure you have a copy of
> the one that came with your computer first. You can use this if you
> would like.
>

Thanks for the reaction. It seems I forgot about the Fn <F7> key
combination :-) That switches touchpad on/off.


Posted by BillW50 on June 14, 2008, 9:30 pm
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haig typed on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:42:50 +0200:
>> I dunno... usually if a piece of hardware fails under two different
>> OS, it is usually the hardware. The only other thing I can think of
>> is the following:
>>
>> 1) You replaced the original driver.
>> 2) You use another pointer device at some point and now the OS is
>> confused with the other driver. I'd would disable the other one or
>> remove it.
>>
>> It doesn't make since that both Linux and Windows won't work (yes I
>> know Windows works for a few seconds, but that is still faulty) if
>> it is software related. Is it a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, maybe try
>> their website and get the latest driver. Although make sure you have
>> a copy of the one that came with your computer first. You can use
>> this if you would like.
>
> Thanks for the reaction. It seems I forgot about the Fn <F7> key
> combination :-) That switches touchpad on/off.

Thanks for the update. And yes, that would explain it all. ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)


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