The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

[Basanta Shrestha]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Have you enabled the feature in your builds?
>
> The tap to click feature is disabled by default in our OLPC OS builds,
> because of the installed base of existing learners who were not
> familiar with it.
>
> In new deployments to inexperienced learners, it may be enabled before
> build.
>
> See
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder/Enable_taptoclick
>
> Also, identify the touchpad on your XO-4 and XO-1.  The actions to
> enable depend on the touchpad type.
>
> See
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad/Testing#Identification


Its SynRelPS/2

And I created file /etc/modprobe.d/olpc-psmouse.conf with line
options psmouse proto=bare taptoclick=1

But it altogether made my touchpad to stop functioning.

>
>
> Perhaps it is working on XO-1 because your build has the enable for
> the type of touchpad in your XO-1, and not working on XO-4 because the
> build does not have the enable for the type of touchpad in your XO-4.
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:57:48AM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
> > Sorry for the confusion. The mouse pad is working okay, what I was
> trying to
> > refer to was "hit on the pad" to click.  On XO-1, I am able to hit on
> the pad
> > to get the effect of mouse click ( left click) which I can not in XO-4.
> > -basanta
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:58 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Seconding what Paul said, the touchpad on XO-4
> >     should be fully functional.   If you have one that isn't, I would
> >     first test it from Open Firmware (halt the laptop boot in Open
> >     Firmware --- at the ok prompt ---- and type:    test /mouse
> >
> >     If that indicates a problem, see:
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Keyboard#
> >     Is_the_touchpad_unresponsive_.3F
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     wad
> >
> >     On Nov 21, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
> >
> >
> >         Hi list,
> >         Just realized that the mouse touchpad doesn't work for XO4. Has
> it been
> >         disabled on purpose ? is there a way to enable it ?
> >
> >         -basanta
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Basanta Shrestha
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