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@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 > > > > -- Running lsusb -v and lspci -v might help you decide if you have a camera. it should come up with references to Video -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
