[Solved] Touchpad not recognized in Porteus 4.0 with KDE

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[Solved] Touchpad not recognized in Porteus 4.0 with KDE

Post#1 by meet » 09 Apr 2020, 16:58

Hello,

I have got Porteus 4.0 KDE installed on a USB stick. When I boot from that it logs to the KDE desktop without any issue. But it doesn't recognize any touchpad. The touchpad settings say that "No Touchpad found". However, the touchpad on my laptop is working perfectly fine.

Please help.

Note this is about Porteus 4.0 and not Porteus 5.0 rc1 mentioned in my profile.

Solution:
Add after the end of APPEND line in Porteus.cfg in boot folder. Solution by benny
Last edited by meet on 09 Apr 2020, 19:26, edited 2 times in total.

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Touchpad not recognized in Porteus 4.0 with KDE

Post#2 by beny » 09 Apr 2020, 17:26

hi meet,for the touchpad try this on porteus conf in the append line: i8042.nopnp initcall_blacklist=dw_i2c_init_driver, for my system work after i have removed the usb mouse, but my portable system is slackware current try if work for you too.

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Touchpad not recognized in Porteus 4.0 with KDE

Post#3 by meet » 09 Apr 2020, 18:09

beny wrote:
09 Apr 2020, 17:26
hi meet,for the touchpad try this on porteus conf in the append line: i8042.nopnp initcall_blacklist=dw_i2c_init_driver, for my system work after i have removed the usb mouse, but my portable system is slackware current try if work for you too.
Hey man. Thanks. That worked.
Though I don't know what it did, but the touchpad works now.

It is something specifically related to some hardwares or a bug in the OS?

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Touchpad not recognized in Porteus 4.0 with KDE

Post#4 by beny » 09 Apr 2020, 19:06

hi, is kernel related,i have done this in my laptop and work ,arch work without this append line,but glad that work for you.

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