Install touchpad drivers

Vlvi · 01-15-2020, 10:37 AM

Hi again!

I'm back with another problem, but i think this one is significantly easier to fix. My touchpad isn't working (not detected by deepin). It didn't either work in windows 10 but I simply had to install the driver from acer support (synaptics one) here https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/conten...oduct/8028?b=1

that driver is only for windows 10. I found synaptic touchpad driver for linux but couldn't make it work.

Reference for linux synaptics https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad

the first step (egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan' /proc/bus/input/devices) doesn't return anything

teckk · 01-16-2020, 12:16 PM

Some info

Code:

pkgname=xf86-input-synaptics
pkgver=1.9.1

curl -I https://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2{,.sig}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:11:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:19:22 GMT
ETag: "7afaa-56d4fb356c38c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 503722
Content-Type: application/x-bzip2

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:11:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:19:22 GMT
ETag: "5f-56d4fb3623d1b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 95
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

According to the arch PKGBUILD it needs

Code:

depends=('libxtst' 'libevdev')
makedepends=('xorg-server-devel' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION=24.1' 'libxi' 'libx11' 'xorgproto')
conflicts=('xorg-server<1.19' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION<24.1' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION>=25')

Do you have a package in your repo called something like xf86-input-synaptics?

Vlvi · 01-17-2020, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Some info

Code:

pkgname=xf86-input-synaptics
pkgver=1.9.1

curl -I https://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2{,.sig}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:11:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:19:22 GMT
ETag: "7afaa-56d4fb356c38c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 503722
Content-Type: application/x-bzip2

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:11:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:19:22 GMT
ETag: "5f-56d4fb3623d1b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 95
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

According to the arch PKGBUILD it needs

Code:

depends=('libxtst' 'libevdev')
makedepends=('xorg-server-devel' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION=24.1' 'libxi' 'libx11' 'xorgproto')
conflicts=('xorg-server<1.19' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION<24.1' 'X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION>=25')

Do you have a package in your repo called something like xf86-input-synaptics?

~$dpkg-query --list xf86-input-synaptics
not packages found

But i don't know if that's the correct command to use.

The debian article i posted above says "In most cases, make sure you have xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse installed, and not the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package."

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and xserver-xorg-input-libinput came installed, i installed the other 2 and remove -input-synaptics as article said, but it didn't work.