Touchpad not working

[Adam.Milani]

Hey guys
I am trying to install porteus on my MSI wind U100, but when I boot up into always fresh so that I can run the installer, the mouse does not seem to work at all. The mouse works fine on the win 8 currently installed.
Any help would be great since I am loving porteus on my other laptop
Thanks in advance
Adam

[Bogomips]

Welcome to Porteus. Help should not be long in coming.

[Adam.Milani]

Thanks man

[jssouza]

Hi Adam,

Usually have to update a config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to make touchpad work.

Please check the touchpad section of the following link:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MSI_Wind_U100

Seems there are 2 kinds of touchpad for it based on the model(Synaptic/Sentelic). The Synaptic configuration should be at the same place that you have to update for Porteus as well (that is, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf).
For the Sentelic, instead of the /etc/rc.local (for Arch Linux), add the configurations in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file for Porteus.
Maybe this helps.

[Adam.Milani]

Hi
Thanks for the reply,
However, how do I add or update the file without the mouse working. I figure open the terminal but then what.
Sorry, I realize I am an absolute noob
Thank you for your patience
Adam

[brokenman]

If the keyboard works you can edit the file with mcedit.

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su
root
mcedit /path/to/file

F10 to save and exit.