I installed OpenSUSE 12.3 x64 with KDE on my Medion akoya E5218. Everything is fine with the drivers, except the touchpad. Its dead, also at the loginscreen, and when I open the config menu, it just says: no touchpad found. I googled a lot and tried to reinstall the synaptiks pack, now xf86-input-synaptics 1.6.3-1.1.1 (1.7.1-1.2) is installed. I have no idea what else i could try. Any suggestions?
This is possible, but I tried de-activating and re-activating, but it doesnt change anything. On a parallel Windows 7 installation, the touchpad works fine. Here the information:
I’m assuming that the “Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000” reported is an external mouse that you have plugged in (as opposed to in-built device)? If so, it is not detected at all by the OS, and a bug report might be required.
When I search online for ‘Medion touchpad not working’ and similar I get threads like these
Yes, the MS thing is an USB mouse. I also did the installation with it and totally forget about the touchpad so I noticed this too late. And I think its really a bug, because on Windows 7 the touchpad is fine and in the links its about a totally dead touchpad. My situation is only with Suse. Isnt there a possibility of “re-initiating” all hardware? Otherwise I better report it as a bug.
I’m having a similar issue with my Lenovo Idepad U410. I have a synaptic touchpad that it’s working, but not so smoothly and when I tried to configured it I come up that there is warning telling that no synaptic touchpad was founded.
Can anyone tell me where to start looking up for this problem?
Please keep this thread on topic for a single thread. If you have a Lenovo and HP laptop, many of these issues have been already answered. Try running a search on all.
This is odd. HP laptops are usually openSUSE friendly.
You must reinstall the synaptiks and xf86-input-synaptics packages. Check the link below about enabling/disabling the touchpad.
Although it refers to Windows it has a screenshot of the keys and keypad. http://bit.ly/1eQCDyl
Reboot your laptop.
Are you using KDE4 or GNOME?
In KDE4, navigate to:
Geeko start –>Configure Desktop
Startup and Shutdown
Click on Service Manager and enable the KDE Touchpad Enabler Daemon
The following lists options that many users may wish to configure. Note that all these options can simply be added to the main configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, as shown in this example configuration
file where I have enabled vertical, horizontal and circular scrolling:
TapButton1 (integer) configures which mouse-button is reported on a non-corner, one finger tap. **
TapButton2** (integer) configures which mouse-button is reported on a non-corner, two finger tap **
TapButton3** (integer) configures which mouse-button is reported on a non-corner, three finger tap RBCornerButton (integer) configures which mouse-button is reported on a right bottom corner, one finger tap
(use Option “RBCornerButton” “3” to achieve Ubuntu style tap behaviour for right mouse button in lower right corner) **
RTCornerButton** (integer) as above, but for top right corner, one finger tap. VertEdgeScroll (boolean) enables vertical scrolling while dragging across the right edge of the touch pad. **
HorizEdgeScroll** (boolean) enables horizontal scrolling while dragging across the bottom edge of the touch pad. **
VertTwoFingerScroll** (boolean) enables vertical scrolling using two fingers. **
HorizTwoFingerScroll** (boolean) enables horizontal scrolling using two fingers. **
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ/W** (integer) play with this value to set the precision of two finger scroll. An example with a brief description of all options. As usual settings will vary between machines. It is recommended that you discover your own options using synclient.
Thank you to ArchWiki for their very informative wiki on using Synaptiks settings and synclient. Using synclient is very helpful on setting Synaptiks. Check out $ man synaptics in konsole or xterm.
Thank You!!! Sorry, didn’t see particular laptop model in thread name. KDE. 12.3x64. Yes, HP’s are OS friendly in my experience, even fiddling around with Kubuntu, so it seems really odd to have this problem. I forgot all about YaST and Online Update. Doing it. Will reinstall touchpad driver. We’ll see…
Followup: I unchecked the KDE Touchpad Enabler and rebooted - now it’s working! I just looked, and it’s still unchecked, and the touchpad is still working. Oh well!
Thank you very much for the help and suggestions. !!!
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 01:36:01 AM CST, PattiMichelle wrote:
PattiMichelle;2621127 Wrote:
> Thank You!!! Sorry, didn’t see particular laptop model in thread
> name. KDE. 12.3x64. Yes, HP’s are OS friendly in my experience,
> even fiddling around with Kubuntu, so it seems really odd to have this
> problem. I forgot all about YaST and Online Update. Doing it. Will
> reinstall touchpad driver. We’ll see…
It’s still not working. I reinstalled gsynaptics and
xf86-input-synaptics and did full Online Update - still no touchpad.
Very odd.
Configure Desktop / Startup and Shutdown / Service Manager / KDE
Touchpad Enabler is checked.
Hi
Do you see the device in the output from;
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --mouse
or
dmesg |grep synap
It is enabled (as in the touchpad) in the system BIOS?
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