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Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed

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From	John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com>
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Subject	Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed
Date	Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:24:29 -0000 (UTC)
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I've recently done some clean installs of Slack15.1x64-current,
downloaded 3/26/26, kernel 6.18.20. So far, installed it
on four desktops and one laptop. No problems whatsoever.
  Yesterday installed it on a second laptop, a Teclast F5r.
Install itself went as smoothly as ever, as far as I could tell.
But upon rebooting, mousepad was not recognized at all.
  It's physically working for sure -- it still works perfectly
when I instead boot from the partition with previous install, 
Slack15.0x64-current, downloaded 8/18/21, kernel 5.13.11.
  I compared and checked everything I could think of
between the two, e.g., rc.gpm is set up as -t imps2 for both,
etc. Then I had a bright idea -- booted from the Slacklive
usb stick that I'd also downloaded 3/26/26. Same mousepad
problem, not recognized at all. A little mouse pointer shows up
in the middle of the slacklive screen after booting and
logging in as "live", but the pointer just sits there
no matter what I do on the mousepad.
  So I'm guessing what would typically be the last thing
I'd guess -- something different between the two releases
is no longer supporting the particular mousepad on this
particular laptop.
  Anybody have any similar experience? Or any idea what
to further check, and/or how to get it working? Thanks,
-- 
John Forkosh

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Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2026-06-27 08:24 +0000
  Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2026-06-27 10:18 +0000
    Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-27 13:09 +0000
      Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-27 18:22 -0300
      Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2026-06-28 06:17 +0000
        Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-28 14:43 +0000
          Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2026-06-29 09:02 +0000
            Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-29 19:58 +0000
          Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-29 19:37 +0000

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