External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 08:25 P. Echols, <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:12 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 02:17 P. Echols, <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 8:04 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
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>>>> Hi!
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>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> if [ "$DISPLAY" == ":0" ]; then
>>>>     xinput --disable "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
>>>> fi
>>>>
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>>> I have been doing something similar on my laptop. A script that toggles
>>> containing the command:
>>>
>>> xinput --disable 13
>>>
>>> Where 13 is the xid of the TouchPad.  Now that i have upgraded to 20.04,
>>> this no longer works.  In fact the command typed in a terminal doesn't
>>> work. Neither does it work formulated as Volcker suggests, using the exact
>>> device name as shown by:
>>>
>>> $xinput --list-props 13
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
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>> Does the synclient command work?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
>> Thanks Colin,
> No synclient does not appear to work
>

Check to see if there is a firmware upgrade available for your mother board.

Colin



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