Hello all,
I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be smooth.
And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless, but that seems to have been fixed for some time.
Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck.
For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under "mouse & touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options.
Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything.
I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64.
I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Brian
Well, a couple of updates:
1) I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it is.
2) the touchpad is...kind of working? After I sent the initial email, at a friend's urging, I booted it with an Ubuntu live cd. It worked as I hoped, and when I ran "xinput list" it was listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". When I reboot into Fedora and ran "xinput list", it was now listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" as well and working. I was able to configure it using the Settings Mouse and had no problems. Then I reboot to see if it was persistent and when I did, it was listed as just "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and stopped working again. Another reboot and it was correctly detected and working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's seen as one way and doesn't work, then seen correctly and working?
Thanks.
Brian
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brian Johnson voyager.106@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be smooth.
And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless, but that seems to have been fixed for some time.
Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck.
For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under "mouse & touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options.
Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything.
I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64.
I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Brian
On 08/27/2014 03:00 PM, Brian Johnson wrote:
Well, a couple of updates:
- I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to
look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it is.
- the touchpad is...kind of working? After I sent the initial email,
at a friend's urging, I booted it with an Ubuntu live cd. It worked as I hoped, and when I ran "xinput list" it was listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". When I reboot into Fedora and ran "xinput list", it was now listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" as well and working. I was able to configure it using the Settings Mouse and had no problems. Then I reboot to see if it was persistent and when I did, it was listed as just "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and stopped working again. Another reboot and it was correctly detected and working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's seen as one way and doesn't work, then seen correctly and working?
Thanks.
looks like others have this issue also..
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/25359/alps-touchpad-not-functional...
On 08/27/2014 03:00 PM, Brian Johnson wrote:
Well, a couple of updates:
- I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to
look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it is.
- the touchpad is...kind of working? After I sent the initial email,
at a friend's urging, I booted it with an Ubuntu live cd. It worked as I hoped, and when I ran "xinput list" it was listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". When I reboot into Fedora and ran "xinput list", it was now listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" as well and working. I was able to configure it using the Settings Mouse and had no problems. Then I reboot to see if it was persistent and when I did, it was listed as just "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and stopped working again. Another reboot and it was correctly detected and working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's seen as one way and doesn't work, then seen correctly and working?
Thanks.
Brian
Look on the Internet for a user manual for that computer. The older Dells had good user manuals. the newer Dells have squat! You can probably find a service manual there too. I have an old Inspiron 6400/E1505,The user's manual is 186 pages, and includes servicing parts inside the machine. I also have a Dell Latitude, E6510. The user's manual is 9 pages. A manual for a "similar" machine, an E6500, is 72 pages. There is an unpaginated service manual for the E6510. It looks somewhat useful. All this printware was downloaded off the Internet. to say that I was disappointed in the documentation would be a gross understatement! It's not a bad machine, however.
--doug
Allegedly, on or about 27 August 2014, Brian Johnson sent:
- I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to
look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it is.
Could be a light sensor, to automatically control the brightness of the screen (or, for some people, to automatically, and continually set the brightness incorrectly).
Generally, cameras are placed at the top of screens.
On Wednesday 27 August 2014 18:46:26 Brian Johnson wrote:
Hello all,
I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be smooth.
And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless, but that seems to have been fixed for some time.
Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck.
For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under "mouse & touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options.
Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything.
I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64.
I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Brian
To get the two button emulation working on my DELL Vostro with my logitech wireless mouse I have the following:
[gary@gary ~]$ cat .kde/Autostart/3button #!/bin/bash
X='/usr/bin/xinput'
for F in `$X list|grep Logitech|cut -d = -f 2|cut -c1-3` ; do $X set-prop $F "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1 done
[gary@gary ~]$
It works on my touchpad without me having to do anything.
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:00 -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
Well, a couple of updates:
- I don't think I have a camera -- a user wrote me and told me to
look at the configuration using my service tag. I did and there's not a camera listed. Which is fine, but there's something odd on the bottom bezel of the screen. It's square and looks like it has a lens in it, like a camera. If it isn't a camera...I have no clue what it is.
- the touchpad is...kind of working? After I sent the initial email,
at a friend's urging, I booted it with an Ubuntu live cd. It worked as I hoped, and when I ran "xinput list" it was listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". When I reboot into Fedora and ran "xinput list", it was now listed as "Alps/PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" as well and working. I was able to configure it using the Settings Mouse and had no problems. Then I reboot to see if it was persistent and when I did, it was listed as just "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and stopped working again. Another reboot and it was correctly detected and working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's seen as one way and doesn't work, then seen correctly and working?
Thanks.
Brian
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brian Johnson voyager.106@gmail.com wrote: Hello all,
I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be smooth. And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless, but that seems to have been fixed for some time. Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck. For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under "mouse & touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options. Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything. I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64. I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Brian--
Running lsusb -v and lspci -v might help you decide if you have a camera. it should come up with references to Video
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