Re: Fedora 20 and Dell Latitude e6400

[Brian Johnson <voyager.106@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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