Re: help needed with HP dv6-3225dx
On 05/05/2012 01:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
Hello to all:
I have a Hp dv6-3225dx installed with Win7. I tried to dual boot with F14 but it
wouldn't recognize the mouse/buttons of the Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad v7.4
(driver 15.2.4.4 per Win7). I just tried an install of F16 and I am getting much
better behavior (as in it understands the mouse) but I am still hitting a wall.
I insert a memory stick and I see the icon popup on my desktop to tell me that it
is there. I mouse over it and it confirms that it exists as an unmounted drive.
When I click the right or left mouse, it does nothing. Experience on my other F16
boxes is that a popup should happen which includes the option of mounting it.
The low lying fruit is that I read the man pages for mount and don't quite
understand what I need to do to mount it. The real problem is that my install is
not fully understanding the touchpad input. Though it would be helpful to know
exactly what I have to type in a terminal as root(?) to mount, I am more concerned
about getting the buttons to behave "as expected".
This is an F16 install under Xfce.
For what it is worth, the mouse/buttons under Win7 have been dodgy at times and I
think HP made a mistake on this computer using them. If I had the money, I would
solve the problem by getting a new laptop ... and not HP as I think they have taken
a wrong path ... and double that for using with Linux.
I don't have a system with a Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad. But, is it fair to assume
that you've reviewed "man synaptics"? I also found there to be a
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf file. So, maybe this needs to be copied
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ ? Of course, after you do that you'll need to restart the X
server.
As for the mounting of the memory stick without having the mouse working for you....
You can "tail -f" /var/log/messages when you plug it in and you'll see what
device is
being assigned. You can then just issue a mount command.
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