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tcl_user5:
My laptop touchpad is not working. I am using Tinycorelinux 13.0 on a UEFI only 64-bit laptop booted from USB.

xinput --list shows two entries- "Intel HID events" and "Intel HID 5 button array" which I feel are related to the touchpad. I enabled both of them using xinput --enable deviceID.

From other related posts on the forum, I installed Xorg-7.7, hidapi, libinput, xf86-input-libinput, libevdev and python3.7. I am attaching both xinput --list and extensions screenshot.

I also tried installing xf86-input-synaptics from https://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/x86/tcz/xf86-input-synaptics. That did not help. Plus, that appears to be a 32-bit extension. I couldnt find it in the 64-bit repo.

Kindly suggest how I can activate the touchpad.

Juanito:
The xf86-input-libinput driver loaded by Xorg-7.7 should work with your touchpad - the xf86-input-synaptics driver from 12.x will not work in 13.x due to the update to xorg-server.

Did you look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if your touchpad is recognised?

tcl_user5:
I uninstalled xf86-input-synaptics (12.x).

The xf86-input-libinput driver is already installed. However, the touchpad does not work. Does any other command need to be used to activate the touchpad ?

I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Its a longish file with lot of detail. However, I am attaching an extract from the Xorg.0.log which appears towards the end appears to be related to the touchpad. From the log entries, I feel the touchpad is recognized.

Pl see and confirm.

Rich:
Hi tcl_user5
Run the following command:

--- Code: ---lsmod > lsmod.txt
--- End code ---
Open the file  lsmod.txt  and paste the contents between code tags. Click the button with the  #  symbol on it for
code tags.

Run this command:

--- Code: ---dmesg > dmesg.txt
--- End code ---
Include the  dmesg.txt  file as an attachment.

nick65go:

--- Quote from: Juanito on March 06, 2022, 07:45:49 AM ---The xf86-input-libinput driver loaded by Xorg-7.7 should work with your touchpad - the xf86-input-synaptics driver from 12.x will not work in 13.x due to the update to xorg-server.

--- End quote ---
FYI: maybe will help other users, because Synaptics driver is missing in TC13.
I had a great success, on TC13_64, using xf86-input-synaptics.tcz (from TC12_64), for my laptop, even if my "Synaptic" touch-pad is basically a click-pad (no visible detached buttons). In my case, now I can have BOTH vertical scroll (two-fingers AND right-edge), instead of only each of them configurable at one time.
PS: do not forget to look inside 70-synaptics.conf to change the MatchInputDriver options etc.

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