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October 20th, 2016, 04:35 PM
Hello,
looking for a little help with an old Milspec CF-30 for field work, i seem to have gotten everything setup the way i want except that the touch pad is not working as a touch pad, it seems to be identified as a generic ps/2 mouse which means pointing works and tap to click works, but side scrolling and multi finger scrolling does not work........this unit has a low res 13 inch screen scrolling is required and a external mouse is not an option since there will almost never be a good surface to use it on...in field work
I have been researching this issue for almost a whole day and have found that in the past there where several fixes for this issue but none of them seem to apply anymore, since these laptops are still highly usefully for workmen like me that need to use a laptop in hazardous places like roofs and hanging off the side of antenna towers it would be kinda of nice if it worked.
so this old thread right here defines the issue with the hardware.......
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=844968
apparently, the touch-pad defaults as a dumb ps2 mouse unless its told otherwise, the fix was to add some startup kernel options to grub to get it kick started
fast forward almost a decade we are at grub2 and kernel 4 plus, so this fix needs a little updating....... im running Ubuntu 16.04
also open to any better ideas as well of-course....
looking for a little help with an old Milspec CF-30 for field work, i seem to have gotten everything setup the way i want except that the touch pad is not working as a touch pad, it seems to be identified as a generic ps/2 mouse which means pointing works and tap to click works, but side scrolling and multi finger scrolling does not work........this unit has a low res 13 inch screen scrolling is required and a external mouse is not an option since there will almost never be a good surface to use it on...in field work
I have been researching this issue for almost a whole day and have found that in the past there where several fixes for this issue but none of them seem to apply anymore, since these laptops are still highly usefully for workmen like me that need to use a laptop in hazardous places like roofs and hanging off the side of antenna towers it would be kinda of nice if it worked.
so this old thread right here defines the issue with the hardware.......
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=844968
apparently, the touch-pad defaults as a dumb ps2 mouse unless its told otherwise, the fix was to add some startup kernel options to grub to get it kick started
fast forward almost a decade we are at grub2 and kernel 4 plus, so this fix needs a little updating....... im running Ubuntu 16.04
also open to any better ideas as well of-course....