My wife just picked up a used Thinkpad e455 laptop and it's working fairly well with Kubuntu 14.04 (trusty).
One big problem is: we're unable to get KDE to disable the touchpad while she types (or, like, at all). The KDE control center's "Touchpad" module complains that the Synpatics driver is not loaded. I've dug around the web, hitting a lot of 2008 & 2009 threads mostly, to no avail. Has anyone got any experience with this kind of trouble on a _recent_ version of Linux? I'm done stabbing in the dark, using recommended tips that are probably useless nowadays. The main issue is an inability to type on the thing, w/o the mouse flying all over the screen. (There are all sorts of great settings to disable touchpad when typing, or when it detects a palm vs. fingers... none of which are available to us until we figure out this driver problem.) Thanks in advance! -- -bill! Sent from my computer _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
