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OK, I've called the guy that has the e5400 he's gonna bring it by one evening next week. Let me see what I have on it and I'll let you know I'm sure there has to be a way to get this going. I don't like to end up "defeated" as I'm sure you don't either. I'm gonna try the LMDE edition live CD on it too so I'll hopefully have answers. Currently it has an aptosid install on it I'm gonna get to pure debian. I will keep you posted.
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That's great - I hope they're similar enough... Dell lists very different drivers for them:
E5400: support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&releaseid=R270649&SystemID=LAT_E5400&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=14029&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=5&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=17&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=399188 N5030: support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&releaseid=R274721&SystemID=INSPIRON_N5030&servicetag=&os=W732&osl=en&deviceid=16519&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=17&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=405584 My concern is that the E5400 won't be similar enough hardware-wise... I was serious about letting you have SSH access... Back to top |
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I do NOT know if this will be of any help or not...
Possible solution ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10651082&postcount=13 Don't know if you've tried that or not. I see you have been at the debian forums trying to get help and really didn't get an answer...GRRR There has to be a way. Unless I have that confused with another laptop I did it was alps.....I'm seeing where the drivers are totally different in the links you sent. Let me double check somethings and if necessary I'll try the ssh idea. Back to top |
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Yeah I saw that solution but if you look at the script all it's doing is DISABLING your touchpad entirely. I don't want to have to enable and disable my pointing device every time I type. That's really impractical :(
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blm14, can you try 2.6.38-5.dmz.2? I removed the ALPS touchpad patch that's supposed to enable side scrolling. Per a comment on launchpad, it actually turns your touchpad into a ps2 mouse. Now all of a sudden, it behaves like a mouse instead of a touchpad - probably worse.
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Behavior is the same, but synaptics pointing devices which showed the touchpad as "ALPS/Imp2" now shows "generic PS2" but the touchpad still works, generally, the same as before, and syndaemon still says no synaptic pointing devices found.
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@ damentz thanks for trying. Man this is really something.
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Indeed - thanks all for help with this. This is the only forum that's been consistently responsive!
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blm14, what distro are you running and what are the versions of these packages you have installed? (or if you even have them installed)
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I am running ubuntu 10.10 64-bit
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ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu5 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.3.2-6ubuntu3.1 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3 Xorg X server - core server ii udev 162-2.2 rule-based device node and kernel event manager Back to top |
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