General :: How To Directly Control My Touchpad
Sep 5, 2010
I had a post about how my "e" key turns my touchpad on/off as well as typing the letter "e". For some reason it generates two keystrokes. So, I was wondering how the operating system (I'm using openSUSE distro) controls the state of the keyboard. I assume somewhere there's a way to say "keep touchpad on at all times", or even better "when toggling touchpad if touchpad is off, turn it on"... Somewhere I think deep within the OS. Does anyone know where I can go to change that?
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Feb 18, 2011
We have a system with 1 GB memory. Out of this, i would like to restrict only 512MB for linux and would like to access the rest 512MB directly from an application that runs on linux.
What is the suggested means to achieve this on 2.6.x?
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May 7, 2010
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS. My laptop is an HP Pavilion TX1210AU (TX1000 series). After disabling the touchpad using the toggle button and reenabling it again, it stopped working. I tried restarting my laptop and the mouse worked again only up to the Login Screen. After logging in to my account, the mouse froze again. I tried making a new account and tried logging into it (I'm using it now) and it's now fixed. Does Ubuntu change any user settings everytime the touchpad toggle (on/off) button is switched? Maybe I could just reenable it myself.
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Apr 22, 2010
I have installed synaptics touchpad drivers , but ubuntu cannot find the touchpad.
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Aug 27, 2010
I couldn't find a place to post Cent OS questions so don't bite if this is in the wrong place
I have a KeySonic 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard with Integrated TouchPad which I am trying to get to work.
Now there are some reviews saying it works straight out the box on Linux. This was almost the case for me.
The keyboard works straight away but the touch pad doesn't work at all not even the mouse buttons
I am running CentOS release 5.3 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5
I would really appreciate any advice at all, I have checked the output of: cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Which gives:
Code:
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Jun 26, 2011
Searched all over the net to see if it's possible and nothing yet. It's good to be here at LQ.O
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Mar 22, 2010
i am using fedora 10 while i login as a normal user its working fine username@hostname while i login as a root user it goes directly into -bash-3.2# if i check pwd it shows /root till now i am not facing any problem as i am using as a normal user but how can i change -bash-3.2# to root@hostname which file and where to edit
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Jun 25, 2010
I have access to backup server via rsync protocol (only rsync, nothing else). Now, I want to fetch file from there (which is .tar.gz) and pass it directly to tar command, without saving the archive in local filesystem. To visualize, with ssh access I could:
ssh remote_host cat backup.file.tar.gz | tar xzf - And I will get uncompressed backup locally, without actually storing .tar.gz on local machine. Is it possible to achieve when using rsync?
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Jul 18, 2011
Is there some way to do live stream video directly from torrent? Are there linux tools like torrent cleint which can do this?
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Feb 8, 2010
I have GShutdown 0.2 on ubuntu .when i put it on with some time it is just restarting the session and going directly to login window. "sudo shutdown -P -- --" is working properly so why the GShutdown 0.2 is not??
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Jul 27, 2010
I am directly creating "qf" & "df" files into the sendmail queue folder and then processing this queue by command line. This is the only way to export data and email from this old application I am stuck with.This works quite well in my test enviornment but I am really new to linux/sendmail and just looking for any feedback on this process. Is this direct creation of queue files safe and any pitfalls that I should be aware of?
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Aug 14, 2010
I have worked on Xen which is being shipped with RHEL 5.4, Is it possible to install Xen hypervisor directly on bare metal, so that we can save resources. I searched in Xen Official site, but could not recognize the product that can be directly installed on bare metal like VMware ESX.
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Mar 16, 2010
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 with a user account for my wife, and one for myself. "Wake-from-screensaver" should result in "choose user" without having to enter any password. I know how to do that in Windows, but I'm not good with Linux (yet). get past the login screen without passwords (after booting, and after choosing "switch user"), but once the screensaver kicks in and I wake it up again, the system does not present the "choose user" screen. Instead, it either turns off the screensaver and presents the desktop of the most recent user, or (if the screensaver is set to lock the screen) prompt for the user's password (which can be handily surpassed by clicking the "switch user" button and choosing the same user again). So, the login ("choose user") screen has been dealt with. How do I make the (any) screensaver return to the login screen at wake, rather than to the current user's desktop? Windows can do this, I'm sure Linux can too - but how?
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Jun 11, 2010
Can I make my messages directly appear at client from server? Normally we type
tailf /var/log/messages
to see messages sent by other machine. So can I send my messages directly at command prompt?
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Jun 23, 2011
"List.lst" is my file containing my files. How may I burn them onto my blank disc with either growisofs or cdrecord? Usually it is based on a copy of a folder to a temp folder, and burn this folder. but I would like to use a file as input. man growisofs is not so widely full of explanations.. .
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Jul 7, 2010
I have an Outlook 2007 PST file that iam trying to import into Thunderbird/IceDove. Based on what google told i tried readpst, it gave me the following error
Code:
$readpst -o PSTfolder/ -r Outlook.pst
Opening PST file and indexes...unknown index structure. Could this be a new Outlook 2003 PST file? Error opening File I did have a look at outport, but it hasnt been updated since 2008(?) i doubt it would work with outlook 2007
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Oct 2, 2010
I tried lspci, lsusb and lshw but none of those lists my touchpad device. Where to look now?
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Jan 21, 2011
I know how to take a screenshot on my Ubuntu, but I want to take many screenshots within a limited time (taking screenshots of a single execution of a program which I can not pause). Is there a program that takes the "PrtScr" keyboard key in charge and just stores every screenshot without asking? The standard Ubuntu tool pops up a dialog to ask where I want to save the file, I would like a tool that doesn't ask and just saves on the Desktop or wherever as 00001.png 00002.png etc.
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Jun 23, 2011
I have a computer with grub installed, and nothing else. I'd like to install Debian on it without having to burn a CD. (and I don't have any flash disks.) It has a nice ethernet card, and I have another computer right next to it with an ethernet card. I also have an ethernet cable. However, I don't have any router free which I can mess with for these purposes. As I've looked up, apparently modern Ethernet cards don't need crossover cables, normal cables will work for this type of connection.
I've tried several different "tutorials" on how to set up a netboot server, but
None of them are complete. All of them assume that you understand how DHCP works, and that you can do things like set up a dnsmasq server. I don't understand the DHCP protocol, with submasks and whatnot (I know that it is the protocol for assigning computer network addresses, and that's it), and I don't think I should have to in order to simply connect two computers. All of the tutorials give you incomplete configuration files, and ask you to fill in things which I don't understand, and for me it doesn't make sense to customize these settings, as I just want to connect them and I really don't care what ip address the TFTP server has or whatnot. All of these assume that you are going through a router. I am not. When I try googling for ways to directly connect two linux computers with an ethernet cable, I can't even find instructions, just more references to "you need crossover cables".
So basically, I have two computers directly connected by ethernet cables. Tell me what packages I need to install, what the contents of my configuration files should look like, and what, if any, commands I need to run in order that when I turn on my second computer, and select network boot, it will start up a minimal debian system.
EDIT: Hmmm, it looks like I actually have a linux kernel installed too, but no root filesystem (so no other programs besides busybox).
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Jan 20, 2010
How to communicate with an SMTP server with telnet, in order to send a mail?
telnet smtp.something.somewhere 53 Trying
10.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to smtp.something.somewhere.
Escape character is '^]'.
And that is as far as I got. What do I have to do after?
What do I have to write after "HELO"?
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Sep 7, 2010
Warning: Do not edit /etc/sudoers directly with an editor; Errors in syntax can cause annoyances (like rendering the root account unusable). You must use the visudo command to edit /etc/sudoers. In the previous section we added your user to the "wheel" group. To give users in the wheel group full root privileges when they precede a command with "sudo", uncomment the following line:
%wheelALL=(ALL) ALL
so i signed in as root and typed in visudo now i alreayd made the changes but how do i exit and save super+x doesnt seem to do it for me since im not using nano and not supposed to cause it causes errors
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Feb 18, 2010
I think the title says it all really - I've installed Mint onto a Acer aspire 5315 laptop. Its a dual boot system using Vista Basic. Grub works perfectly and to be honest Mint is great. really enjoying playing and learning. My problem is that the laptop overheats when using Mint - the cpu fan doesn't cut in and the laptop shuts down to protect the system. According to a swift google this seems to occur with mint (possibly particularly with Acer's) and maybe with other distro's too. However I'd like to keep trying to see if i can find one that works.
So my rather obvious newbie question is can I just get another distro dvd and install this onto the partition containing mint thus deleting the previous install? If I did this would Grub show the new distro ok or would it keep searching for Mint. I have a back up so if all else fails I can reinstall everything but that will have to wait till I get home
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Jan 4, 2011
Finished installing Ubuntu 10.10 in my XPS15, intel i5 4g ram, nvidia GT 420M graphics card,
problem is when i go to additional drivers, the driver listed (Nvidia accelerated graphics) when I install it and reboot it the computer starts on the terminal, no graphic interface. All I get is the black screen asking me login and password, when I enter them, just get the terminal prompt in a black screen.
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Jun 10, 2010
when i install ubuntu on vista from iso file directly from hard disk it install the copy completely but after booting up a white sreen comes up with vertical coloured linning.
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May 12, 2011
I want to set security regarding with the root user. The root user must not be allowed to login directly to the service console, how will I do this?
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Jul 4, 2011
whenever i hibernate or shut down my laptop,its touch pad automatically turns off..next time i login,i've to start it by pressing Fn+F8(which i think is my laptop custom shortcut).
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Jun 2, 2011
so i got several problems with dirvers i guess, the touchpad doesn't work really, the cursor jumbs all over the place and the microphone doesn't work at all, i updated the system several times, my Laptop is a Lenovo B560
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Jul 13, 2011
The touchpad on my Lenovo Z560 is to sensitive. I went into the mouse setting and adjusted the pointer speed sensitivity as low as possible but I don't see any difference. The lightest touch will move the pointer. I saw where some have modified the xorg.conf file but I can't find it in Ubuntu 11.04. From what I could find with Google this laptop uses a Synaptics touchpad. I installed Gpointing-device-settings and was able to change the speed but not the sensitivity. How can I make the touchpad less sensitive?
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May 13, 2010
What are the differences between "su -" in a GUI terminal and directly logging in as root in a text mode terminal (tty1-tty6)? Any environment, path or other functionality differences?
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Aug 24, 2010
My Laptop is a Sony VAIO VPCS12C5E. I recently installed Fedora 13 (x64). I have the problem that the Touchpad is not working at all.The following Synaptics driver is installed:
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.2.2-6.fc13.x86_64
Touchpad is not listed in GPointing (Version 1.5.1-2) A USB Mouse is working fine. I tried adding the following configuration to a new X11 conf file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Driver "synaptics"
EndSection
I got the configuration from [URL]
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