On 06/12/2017 08:34 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 06/12/2017 06:26 PM, George from the tribe wrote:
On new Dell Inspiron 15 5576, the touchpad stops working a few seconds after reaching the display manager. In fact, what I have figured out is, that on reboot, if I use the mouse and don't touch the touchpad, it will work. Once I use the touchpad, it lasts about 3 seconds and then stops working.
I found this message in the journalctl, and the fault time exactly corresponds with when the touchpad stopped working:
Pretty sure this is by design.
If you have a mouse, the touchpad can become a liability. (cursor jumping from palm brushes go unnoticed and typists hork over documents.
A lot of desktop environments now insert a capability to automatically turn off the touchpad if a mouse is detected. Others only disable the touchpad while typing and for X milliseconds after typing stops.
That DE you love to hate (KDE) has this as a choice Settings / configure desktop / input devices / touchpad / enable-disable
In this case those buttons have no effect. Whether or not I have the disable-touchpad-when-mouse-is-plugged-in button checked, the touchpad is broken. I think the "input0 lost sync at byte 6" is an indication of some kind of fault. When I unplug my regular mouse, the touchpad is still not working. -- George Box: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 12GB Laptop #2: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org