I doubt that my hardware is too new. It is a Dell Latitude E6410 that I bought second hand a couple of years ago. :)
How would I go about upgrading to a backported kernel? Is there a repo somewhere I can use or do I need to build it myself? /fuumind On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:27:39 -0400 Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:01:46AM +0100, David Hare wrote: > > On 26 April 2016 at 02:00, David Hare <davidah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I recently did a devuan-based install on a quite new Dell laptop. > > > Many things did not work properly (sound, wlan, touchpad). A newer > > > "backport" kernel sorted it all. > > > > > > On 25 April 2016 at 20:19, fuumind <fuum...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > > >> Hi! > > >> > > >> I am trying to get touchpad scrolling working on my new Devuan setup. So > > >> far I've figured out that it is probably pmouse that is driving the > > >> hardware by stealing the following from > > >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131432/which-driver-is-handling-my-touchpad > > >> : > > > I've been using devuan since sometime last year on an old eeepc > netbook, maybe 5 years old. It just worked. Could it be that your > hardware is too new? I find its touchpad to be something of a nuisance. > I touch it by accident and things go strange. I prefer to use my USB > wireless mouse. > > David Hare had success with a backported kernel. > > I've had problems like this a few times with new hardware. My ten year > old server wouldn't do X when it was new. Regular updates, and it > worked fine after about six months. > > Mind you, as a server it was OK that it only did text terminals for a > while. > > -- hendrik > > > >> > > >> lsmod|grep -iE "apple|cyapa|sermouse|synap|psmouse|vsxx|bcm" > > >> > > >> and getting > > >> > > >> psmouse 99249 0 > > >> > > >> Apart from this all I seem to be able to find on the net is alot about > > >> setting up X for synaptics. > > >> > > >> As I am unsure how to proceed I would appreciate any guidance! > > >> > > >> /fuumind > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Dng mailing list > > >> Dng@lists.dyne.org > > >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- fuumind <fuum...@openmailbox.org> _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
