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Re: Laptop mousepad not recognized after -current installed

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Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> wrote:
> John Forkosh wrote:
> 
>> So, I'm probably just going to leave that laptop booting 5.13.11,
>> unless you guys know of a patch that works, or some other solution.
>> In any event, thanks so much for all your help, which at least
>> identified the problem.
> 
> You might have mentioned this already, and if you have but I've simply
> forgotten, I do apologize ... since you're looking at a 6.18.x kernel,
> is this perhaps a Slackware-current system?  (... though the fallback
> to 5.13.x certainly suggests otherwise ...)

Yeah, both -current, at least at time of downloading: original post
refers to them as
       "Slack15.1x64-current, downloaded 3/26/26, kernel 6.18.20"
and to "Slack15.0x64-current, downloaded 8/18/21, kernel 5.13.11"
And if it's of any interest, I've always been downloading from
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/
using rsync in the form
   rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/  \
   slackware64-current-yyyymmdd/
to an empty directory with yyyymmdd set to the then-current date.
Finally, to get the bootable usb stick used for install,
I execute usbimg2disk.sh (which you have to chmod 755 yourself)
in the usb-and-pxe-installers/ directory. Has always worked great.
Never any problems (before this), at least none that I ran into,
though (as you discuss below) I suppose there were likely some
bugs that I didn't run into.
   Oh, and no need to apologize, whatsoever...
   But don't let it happen again :)

> I'm asking because I have Slackware-current on a system on which I'm
> unable to use the pre-packaged 6.18.x (and presumably the 7.x kernels
> in testing, but I've not tried those) kernels because I'm unable to
> build the device driver for my (hardware) RAID controller on them.
> I haven't taken the time to dig into why that's happening ... I
> don't actually need the newer kernel for anything on this system.
> So on that system, I stick with Linux-6.12.x kernels, updating to
> whichever version is latest available when I do my routine patching.
> The kernels are built using Slackware's kernel build scripts, so they
> build into "proper" Slackware packages, just at version 6.12.x.
> 
> This approach might be useful to you as well, permitting you to
> nudge your kernel version up some.  Perhaps the 5.15.x kernels from
> Slackware-15.0?, or the 6.12.x kernels from before current moved
> to 6.18.x could get you a newer kernel while still fully supoorting
> your touchpad.
> 
> It's a thought that might help, anyway ...

Thanks again, Sylvain. It had briefly crossed my mind to try
installing some intermediate (between 2021 and 2026) -currents that
I still have lying around in several of those "yymmdd" directories
mentioned above. I'd updated several other PCs, but never bothered
with that little Teclast. I use it for precisely one purpose:
I like reading (and making marginal notes in, etc) technical books
and papers in hard copy form. But it's extremely useful to be able
to search them while you're reading, which can't be done in hardcopy.
So I always keep a pdf (sometimes ps) of whatever I'm reading
displayed on the Teclast. And the firefox version it has is fine
for that purpose (though https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/linux/
allows easy upgrades without affecting anything else -- it comes
complete with all its own libs). So in all likelihood, in my case
and for my purpose, I'll just leave the Teclast booting 5.13.11.
-- 
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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