Touchpad second button not working in new Fedora 21 install.

[Ananda Samaddar]

Hello all,

I've just installed Fedora 21 from the live desktop image to my
laptop; an Acer Aspire E15.  I did a DNF update immediately after
installing.

For some reason I cannot use the second touchpad button to right click
at all.  I'm using GNOME as my desktop.  Everything else is working
fine except this.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be most appreciative.  If you need
the outputs of any commands then I'm fine with doing that.

thanks in advance,

Ananda Samaddar

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 21:34:13 +0000
Ananda Samaddar  wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just installed Fedora 21 from the live desktop image to my
> laptop; an Acer Aspire E15.  I did a DNF update immediately after
> installing.
>
> For some reason I cannot use the second touchpad button to right click
> at all.  I'm using GNOME as my desktop.  Everything else is working
> fine except this.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be most appreciative.  If you need
> the outputs of any commands then I'm fine with doing that.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Ananda Samaddar

Apologies for reply to myself.  I should clarify: right click does not
work in anything, Firefox for example.  I don't think this is a GNOME
'feature'.

thanks,

Ananda

[Tim]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 21:34 +0000, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> I've just installed Fedora 21 from the live desktop image to my
> laptop; an Acer Aspire E15.  I did a DNF update immediately after
> installing.
>
> For some reason I cannot use the second touchpad button to right click
> at all.

I'll ask the obvious:  Have you logged in and out, or rebooted, since
doing the update?

Reboots, generally, are not necessary after updates (unless you want to
use a newly installed kernel), but log out and back in again may be
needed (depends on what was updated).

And then there's the converse, if you rebooted and found something
didn't work, do another reboot and this time choose to boot up using the
previous kernel, and see if things behave any different.

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:19:48 +1030
Tim  wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 21:34 +0000, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> > I've just installed Fedora 21 from the live desktop image to my
> > laptop; an Acer Aspire E15.  I did a DNF update immediately after
> > installing.
> >
> > For some reason I cannot use the second touchpad button to right
> > click at all.
>
> I'll ask the obvious:  Have you logged in and out, or rebooted, since
> doing the update?
>
> Reboots, generally, are not necessary after updates (unless you want
> to use a newly installed kernel), but log out and back in again may be
> needed (depends on what was updated).
>
> And then there's the converse, if you rebooted and found something
> didn't work, do another reboot and this time choose to boot up using
> the previous kernel, and see if things behave any different.

I managed to get it working.  The problem is that the Device ID shows
it as unrecognized.  When I followed the Fedora Wiki instructions it
worked.  It's one of those new clickpads where the entire pad is a
button.  I'll need to file a bug but don't which package it should be
against.  I'll possibly start a new thread for that.

Ananda