[Arm-netbook] Touchpad

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Michael Howard
<mike at dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:
> Michael Howard wrote:
>> Michael Howard wrote:
>>
>>> Am I just lucky or is anybody else suffering from a touchpad that just
>>> refuses to work every so often? Once it goes on strike no matter how
>>> many resets, it just makes no difference, then the next day, it works. A
>>> bit like the nic really. Of course, if like now both the touchpad AND
>>> the nic are on strike, game over.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Apologies for following up my own post. I now have my touchpad back but
>> only by flashing back to the Chitech (or whoever) MOS. Still no network
>> though.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>
> Well, I reflashed with debian, did the lenny install, installed
> xserver-xorg, xfce4 and xdm. Guess what? No touchpad again. Weird!
> Still I can use a usb mouse for the time being but I would like to get
> to the bottom of it.

 that is completely odd - but potentially understandable, on the basis
that if there is a GPIO or power-up issue that needs to be found...

 it's a USB device.  can you do lsusb and find out what it says?  look
in /dev/input etc. and generally poke around.

 l.