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Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:28 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
> > I have a brand new Dell Latitude 5590 laptop on which I've installed
> Debian
> > 9.6.
>
> <snip>

> >
> > 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.
>
<snip>

>
> Google tells me you have a
> IEI Integration Corp DELL0817:00 044E:121F Touchpad
>
> and that this is a HID over I2C device, which requires the
> following kernel modules:
>
> intel-lpss-pci
> i2c-hid
> hid-multitouch
>
> and then it will work.
>
> My Stretch system has all three of those (4.9.0-8-amd64),
> so try modprobing them all and see what results you get.
>
> Thank you for your response.

"lsmod" reveals all three of these modules are installed.

Just for kicks, I modprobe'd all three (with no visible response), but it
made no difference.


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Kent West                    <")))><
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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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