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Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button

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I have a brand new Dell Latitude 5590 laptop on which I've installed Debian
9.6.

An external mouse works fine, but the finger-stick pointer doesn't work
(which I don't really care about), and the trackpad doesn't work right
(which hampers me).

The trackpad moves the mouse-pointer fine, but the top two buttons do
nothing (don't really care), and the bottom left is a secondary click and
the bottom right is a middle click (as reported by the "Test Your Settings"
area of the "Mouse & Touchpad" utility), and the"tap on the pad" function
does nothing.

I found the "Synaptics Touchpad" article on the Debian WIKI, which says
that "egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan' /proc/bus/input/devices" will tell me
the type of touchpad I have, but that returns nothing, as does a simpler
"ls -lah /proc/bus/input/devices".

This document also suggested installing xserver-xorg-input-libinput (was
already installed), xserver-xorg-input-evdev (I've since installed and
rebooted), and xserver-xorg-input-mouse (I've since installed and
rebooted), and to not have xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.

Interestingly, during the original install, the trackpad did not work. I
didn't worry about plugging in an external at that time, nor worry about it
at that time, figuring it'd be an easy fix post-install (but it's not been).

Googling has pointed at a lot of old material, and suggested the synaptics
driver (which the WIKI above suggests against), etc, so I'm not sure what
the canonical way is to go about fixing this. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks!



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Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-11-15 17:20 +0100
  Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-15 17:30 +0100
    Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-11-15 18:00 +0100
      Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-15 19:10 +0100
        Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-11-15 21:10 +0100
          Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-15 21:40 +0100
            Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-11-15 22:40 +0100

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