On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, alan c <aeclist@???> wrote:
> AdamC wrote:
>>
>> As title says really, touchpad has stopped working completely, using
>> Gnome on my Novatech laptop.
>>
>> I've not changed anything major recently. My xorg.conf can be seen at
>> http://www.monkeez.org/linux/x11/xorg.conf
>>
>> Any tips of where I should look to diagnose?
>
> it might be useful to know if the touchpad works from a (ubuntu 8.04?) live
> cd. It would be one way of verifying the hardware - connections, joints etc.
>
> The novatech forum is worth using occasionally because of possible hardware
> type knowledge, there are some ubuntu users there.
>
> I have not understood much about the latest offerings of xorg.conf in 8.04 -
> it uses a minimalist approach with the recent Xorg version (3.7?)
>
> If the touch pad works with live cd, at least compare the xorg.conf in the
> live system with the non working one?
> --
> alan cocks
Alan,
Thanks for the tip - since writing, the touchpad has strangely started
working again. Must have been an X glitch, although it wasn't working
for a couple of days.
Adam
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