crouton: Mouse moving doesn't work
Hi!
I just installed Unity via crouton and called sudo startunity which perfectly loaded me Ubuntu, but I can’t move the mouse.
I can right click (the context menus shows), close it (via esc), but I can’t move my mouse (I can’t say if I can left clic).
I tried going back to ChromeOs and then regoing into Ubuntu, but the mouse still don’t move.
For information, I use a HP Chromebook 14 with the original mouse (not a plugged USB one). With an external mouse (USB), it works greats!
Is there something I am missing ?
After some trying it appears the mouse is moving, but I have to press really hard on the touchpad to make it move, and the behavior is not great at all.
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- State: closed
- Created 11 years ago
- Comments: 31 (3 by maintainers)
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- Add automatic device synclient settings. Fixes trackpad on Butterfly (#214). This could be used to optimize trackpad performance on any device. — committed to dnschneid/crouton by dnschneid 11 years ago
- Added high-def touchpad for chell, terra, reks As indicated by DennisLfromGA and #214. — committed to elefthei/crouton by deleted user 8 years ago
@dnschneid I’m running on Acer Chromebook 14. I installed crouton from the link on the github repo today 5/6/2016 and installed xfce-desktop on trusty with every extension except keyboard. I had the same problem described here evidenced by the fact that the touchpad responded to clicks fine but would not move the pointer unless I I used my palm as if it was my finger. The touchpad worked fine using my palm as a finger, but that is obviously not an effective prosthetic! My problem was solved by:
at which point the touchpad works perfectly. Wasn’t sure if you wanted to re-open this bug and address it in crouton since the Acer Chromebook 2014 just started shipping from Amazon a few days ago.
Scratch that. I’m able to reproduce. Turns out the trackpad outputs really low pressure values, and the synaptics driver ignores them. Run the following inside a terminal in Unity:
synclient FingerLow=1 FingerHigh=5and your trackpad should start working.I’ll need to add a mechanism by which when X11 starts, it looks up the device and runs synclient with whatever parameters are nice (on the Pixel, for instance, it’s waaay too sensitive). Keeping the bug open to track that.
Wow, looks like quite a few models are being bitten by this touchpad issue.
Maybe the
chroot-bin/croutonxinitrc-wrapperscript could be updated to include:There may be others too I guess.
HP Chromebook 13 G1 has the same issue (as did the Chromebook 14 G1, heh). Same fix.
HP Chromebook 11 G5 has the same issue. Running the
synclient FingerLow=1 FingerHigh=5command and the trackpad is working like a charm.Lenovo N22 same issue and same fix - is there any chance this fix can be somehow built in? I have literally no idea how this stuff works otherwise I’d consider raising a pull myself.