Lenovo Noteobok: mouse (touchpad) won't work

[wingevil]

I've made a full install on a brandnew Lenovo G550 notebook.

After the 1st reboot, the mouse (touchpad) won't work If I plug in a USB-mouse it works at once

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

[damNageHack]

I had similiar problems with Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One. Touchpad and other stuff was broken after a dist-upgrade.

I got the hint that the kernel is the responsible part, and so I installed another one. Maybe you should compile your own kernel because the Salix/Slackware default one has not support compiled in or udev does not detect the correct module for your touchpad. Did you try other distros with touchpad working as expected?

But don't ask me now how to detect which touchpad you have, possibly the synaptics driver would help, but only assumption.

Can you do these both commands in console? The second possibly as root. What is the outpur?

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$ grep -i touchpad /var/log/Xorg.0.log

$ su -c "dmesg |grep -i touchpad"

E.g. on my Acer it is like this:

raphael@benny:~$ grep -i touchpad /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.1.2
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 0
(II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right middle
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
raphael@benny:~$ sudo dmesg |grep -i touchpad
[sudo] password for raphael:
[ 14.131946] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000
[ 14.178051] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input7

[gapan]

Did you install 13.0 or 13.0.1?

[wingevil]

Okay thank you both but it is "solved".

In the meantime I had some more problems, most important was, that Salix didn't recognize the wkan-card.

I tried out Linux Mint "Gloria" in live-modus and all worked perfect and automatically: touchpad, wide-screen resoution, wlan...

So I decided to install Linux Mint on this notebook. The comp is just for browsing/mailing for my wife who is absolutely unexperienced with computers, so it doesn't matter, which distro is installed.

[damNageHack]

Another reason to upgrade the kernel - in my opinion.

[thenktor]

Another reason to upgrade the kernel - in my opinion.

Nobody uses distribution kernels anyway... Building my own kernel was the first thing I've learned with Linux