Hi there .... anyone come across anything like this? I bought a Samsung
N145 Plus Netbook from the very helpful guy on e-bay I told you about.
I came pre-loaded with Ubuntu 11.04 and seemed fine until I installed a
couple of apps, after which the touchpad appeared to die. The guy I
bought it from was convinced it was going to be a software fauld and
although he would have accepted it back, I felt encouraged to look
deeper. He had sent me some helpful links, one of which was a page on
the Ubuntu Bug wiki giving detailed instructions for detailed diagnosis
and reporting.
Eventually, I popped the LiveCD of 10.04 in and the touchpad worked when
I booted this. I did a fresh install, and everything seemed fine. Then
I shut down and when I re-booted, the touchpad had disappeared again.
Instead of a touchpad, the kernel had installed it as a PS2 Generic
wheel mouse, so of course it didn't do anything. The thing is, after
that, the pad wouldn't work even when booting from any of the Live CDs I
tried - 10.10 up to 11.10. I took the battery out because obviously
something was 'remembering' that I didn't have a touchpad. Still no
luck. This morning, I thought that the only place that anything could
have been stored was the bios flash memory.
After a bios reset to defaults, the touchpad came back on line again and
try as I might, I can't seem to break it again.
Any thoughts? I'm really curious. The touchpad gets installed as an
ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad.
Regards, Barry.
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