On 06/06/2014 05:17 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:47:37 -0700 > Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > >> I'm guessing this is because I had a mouse plugged in when I did the >> install, but my laptop does not respond to the touch pad or its >> associated buttons.
I guessed wrong. While searching for something that would tell me that the OS knows the touchpad is there I found: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153244 One of the comments toward the end of that page talked about a function key to activate the touchpad. I'd never heard of such a thing but, sure enough, there it is. Fn F7 has a rectangle with a pointing finger on it. Hitting that key combination restored the touchpad functionality. Now to continue playing with Dale's advice and see how I can tweak this touchpad. Thanks again, Dale, for the pointers to syclient(1) and synaptics(4). Studying those gave me a better understanding of what I can do with the touchpad. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug