• Registered: 2010-07-23
  • Posts: 3

Topic: Touchpad no left or middel click (new clickpad style pad)

I have installed Statler Alpha2 on an HP Mini 210-1010NR, and the touchpad is not functioning correctly. I am unable to right click or middle click

It seems that the problem arises from the hardware not actually being a touch pad but a "new" click pad. Apparently this thing has a kernel patch written for it:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/67335/

as well as a debian bug report (#572842)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572842

Unfortunately I have no idea what to do with this information. I tried applying the patch (that was fun) but it just rejected it. I guess they are eventualy going to integrate the patch into the kernel or something.

I know it works on Ubuntu 10.10 (left them when I found statler), so there has to be someway to get the kernel to play nice with the clickpad.

Thank you in advance for the assistance.

  • Registered: 2010-04-14
  • Posts: 19

Re: Touchpad no left or middel click (new clickpad style pad)

Have you tried a newer kernel? Maverik is on 2.6.35 it seems and Statler is still on 2.3.32. Unless Canonical applied that patch themselves then the newer kernel might be what you need.

  • Registered: 2010-07-23
  • Posts: 3

Re: Touchpad no left or middel click (new clickpad style pad)

I will try the new kernel... but it is in experimental!!!!!! I don't think it has all the dependencies available in the repos. Lets see just how broken I am willing to get this thing for my pad to work.

  • Registered: 2010-07-23
  • Posts: 3

Re: Touchpad no left or middel click (new clickpad style pad)

Okay, I got the new kernel loaded from "experimental". I got the following warrnings though:

This system is currently running Linux 2.6.32-5-686 and you are installing Linux 2.6.35-rc5-686.  
In the new version some of the drivers used on this system may require additional firmware files:

r8169: rtl8168d-2.fw, rtl8168d-1.fw


And needless to say the click-pad does not work still. I know this kernel is supposed to have the patch i mentioned before, I checked in the change log.
"backport Input: Add support of Synaptics Clickpad device (Closes: #572842)"

Could I need some kind of firmware update to get this thing running? Do I need to reconfigure the device as it is still reported in the mouse settings dialog as a synPS/2 touchpad? Thanks in advance for the assistance.

UPDATE: the firm listed above of for a realtek audio thing not my touchpad. I doubt that would have anythig to do with it.

Last edited by eagle_02 (2010-07-26 14:12:21)

  • Registered: 2010-04-14
  • Posts: 19

Re: Touchpad no left or middel click (new clickpad style pad)

For future reference if you want to install anything from unstable or experimental then the best way is probably with apt-pinning. If you get it right then there should be no dependency issues. In fact someone ought to make a How-to on this.

As for why the kernel isn't correctly identifying your device I would guess that your specific model hasn't been listed as supported within the kernel, but that is a stab in the dark and you should probably ignore me.