So, I installed Debian for my first time. While there are lots of items I'm still learning about, one of them is that I can't seem to get my touchpad to work. I've tried following the steps here:
https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad
So I installed the synaptics package and it says its enabled under 'Mouse and Touchpad' for System Settings, so I'm not sure what part I'm doing wrong.
Something I think theoretically is the problem but also can't seem to fix is that I can't find a xorg.conf.d folder in etc although I did find one in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d as 50-synaptics as an uneditable file requesting me to not edit it.
How should I proceed? Thank you for all help in advance.
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Touchpad not working
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Re: Touchpad not working
Pardon. P70-B-10Tarochester wrote:Which specific MODEL of Toshiba Satellite?
Re: Touchpad not working
Update:
After further google searching I discovered a solution here that helped me.
https://martincooper9.wordpress.com/201 ... -touchpad/
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=122385
I'm not sure if it was a combination of the two or specifically the actions with modprobe -v evdev in the latter.
But to anyone who ever needs help with their Synaptics touchpad in the future, those seem to be good resources to start from.
After further google searching I discovered a solution here that helped me.
https://martincooper9.wordpress.com/201 ... -touchpad/
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=122385
I'm not sure if it was a combination of the two or specifically the actions with modprobe -v evdev in the latter.
But to anyone who ever needs help with their Synaptics touchpad in the future, those seem to be good resources to start from.