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Re: Dell Trackpad - No Primary Button

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:04 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:28 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > "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.
>
> What does `sudo lshw -c input` tell you? Anything relevant
> looking?
>
>
With my external mouse unplugged, the above command gives me nothing:

$ sudo lshw -c input
$



> Same for 'xinput' while X is up.
>

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer
(2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer:13                         id=6    [slave  pointer
(2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13                id=7    [slave  pointer
(2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard
(3)]
    ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13                        id=8    [slave  keyboard
(3)]
$


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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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