Fedora 20 and Dell Latitude e6400

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On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:00 -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
> 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 at 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