[Wylug-help] fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 12 June 2013 10:56:11 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 June 2013 10:25:58 Simon Greenwood wrote:
> > Does a USB mouse work? Does the touchpad show up at all in KDE?
> >
> > You could also boot to a console (without KDE running) and try Xorg
> > -configure to generate a new configuration. Try doing Xorg -configure 
> > and copying the output to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> >
> > Also, and I know it was probably what you were trying to avoid, download
> > the live CD/DVD of Fedora 18 and see if it's detected on that - that will
> > load every driver under the sun but it should identify it properly.
> >
> > s/
>
> My USB logitech mouse works fine.
> The touchpad works if I boot in runlevel 3
> running Xorg config made no difference
> In KDE "System Settings" -> "Input Devices" the touchpad tab is disabled.

I still haven't managed to get my touchpad working. One thing that the 
touchpad did do, which my mouse never has is have a working middle button 
(pressing left and right buttons together). With the mouse I am unable 
to "paste".  

anyone got any suggestions?

-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk