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Hi,

I am on Mageia 4 on a Dell XPS M1530 laptop. Recently, the scrolling on the touchpad has stopped working. It works on Windows [dual boot system] though, so, not a h/w problem. I went into the System Settings (Configure your desktop) and under the Input Devices --> Touchpad saw that the scrolling configuration is disabled. Any way to activate it?

I checked the software packages and saw both the synaptics [regular and devel] packages installed. The same was what solved this issue in an earlier post of mine!

https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2050

No luck this time though. Please advise.

Best regards,

Please show the output as normal user of

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journalctl -ab | grep syna
grep -i synaptic /var/log/Xorg.0.log
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep synd
synclient -l

Thank you for the response. No output from the first 3 commands. Just the last one returned some output.

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[mrigs@andromeda ~]$ journalctl -ab | grep syna
[mrigs@andromeda ~]$ grep -i synaptic /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[mrigs@andromeda ~]$ ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep synd
[mrigs@andromeda ~]$ synclient -l
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
[mrigs@andromeda ~]$


-Best,

mrigs wrote:Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Says it all. The X server has not recognised your touchpad. Please show the output of

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xinput list

and also attach or post the complete content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thank you. I wonder why, since this is something which was working recently. Anyway, here is the requested output -

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[mrigs@localhost ~]$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101b       id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Broadcom Corp                             id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 ALPS GlidePoint                      id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop Integrated Webcam                  id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Broadcom Corp                             id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=15   [slave  keyboard (3)]


Requested files -

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[mrigs@localhost X11]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[mrigs@localhost X11]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 262502)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
    Option "DontZap" "False" # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Generic"
    ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x800"
    HorizSync 28.8-90
    VertRefresh 60
   
    # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 50.0 kHz hsync, ratio 16/10, 98 dpi)
    ModeLine "1280x800" 71.26 1280 1296 1344 1424 800 801 804 834 -hsync -vsync
   
    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630
   
    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 8100 to GeForce 360"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
    Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection


It's detected as PS/2 mouse and not as touchpad.

You need to google around a bit - force it to be detected as touchpad, or use a different driver. Some related links:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To ... _Touchpads
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812111
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... mments/329
http://askubuntu.com/questions/282931/h ... r-touchpad
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=95940
http://en.community.dell.com/support-fo ... 95775.aspx

Thank you doktor5000. All of a sudden it has started working again. The only thing I have done these past few days is switch to my Windows system once. Really did not understand what the issue was though!

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks