On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:01:48PM +0000, ael wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:36:24PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > I have a Gateway LT3013U netbook. I have successfully installed Debian (the > > regular distro, not any special netbook version) on it. Everything works > > Data point: the output of 'cat /proc/bus/usb/input/devices' contains > > neither Synaptics, Elantech nor ALPS. It is detected as a PS/2 mouse. > > > What does lshal say?
It wasn't installed. Because hal wasn't installed. Installing hal fixed the problem--the touchpad works perfectly now. Why heck didn't the squeeze installer include hal? Thanks both to you and to Alexander Reichle-Schmehl for the effort, and thanks for suggesting lshal, which pointed me in the right direction. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101111031003.ga16...@panix.com