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rerwin wrote:What sort of problem did you have with lupu and touchpads?
Richard

peebee wrote:The utility for the touchpad is FlSynclient I believe,,,

On bootup of 5.2.8.6 my Synaptics touchpad "scrollbar" is disabled - when FlSynclient is run it detects the touchpad but puts up a message to say that an X-restart is needed - after X-restart the touchpad cursor movement reacts very sluggishly until FlSynclient is run again and the parameters are tweaked.

All of this seems to fully automatic in all the current Pups - Precise, Slacko, Upup etc. with a fully working and properly configured touchpad on initial boot.

Whether just an updated FlSynclient is needed or something else as well I'm not sure - maybe 01Micko could remember what changed?

[later] On further investigation it looks like a later version of Xorg would be needed to fix the touchpad problem - Precise has 1.11.3 whereas Lucid has 1.7.6....would guess this is a change too far for this exercise.

# ls -l /mnt/sda5/sources/lupu-5.2.8.6-20130917.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 144883712 2013-09-18 09:25 /mnt/sda5/sources/lupu-5.2.8.6-20130917.iso
#

Does it include all the updates you mentioned in your message, above?

rerwin wrote:One package that precise has that is absent from lupu is this:
ftp://ftp.linux.hr/puppylinux/pet_packa ... 0.14.6.pet
which puts a "synclient" file in /usr/X11/bin, in addition to the one of the same name in /usr/bin. Could you install that to see if it makes a difference? I doubt that it will, but let's rule that out, anyway.

jeff757 wrote:I commented out lines 2&3 in load-touchpad-settings in the savefile. Shutdown the laptop, then restarted and everything from ~/.flsynclient appeared in the gui when I started Flsynclient from the menu.
Jeff

jeff757 wrote:I commented out lines 2&3 in load-touchpad-settings in the savefile. Shutdown the laptop, then restarted and everything from ~/.flsynclient appeared in the gui when I started Flsynclient from the menu.

• #!/bin/bash
  [ -s "$HOME/.flSynclient" ] || exit
  grep -Ewq '(Elantech|Alps|Synaptics)' /proc/bus/input/devices || exit
  flsynclient -s

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: PROP=9
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=2608000 11000003

Smithy wrote:All the recent ones slackos, precises do not have the tap pad working.

rerwin wrote:Peebee,
Thanks for trying the experiment. BTW, what does your "devices" file say about the touchpad?
Richard

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: EV=b
B: KEY=420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: PROP=1
B: EV=b
B: KEY=420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

Now that I have gotten this far, I am open to recommendations on the most important components to upgrade or add, to make Lucid Pup continue to be desirable. Keep in mind, though, that I do not have playdayz' skills at resolving issues with new items. So, we need to focus on components that are safe to add, or can easily be made so, and can be tested/verified by someone besides me. I plan to start with recent woof fixes to add to the ones I have already included.