Mouse touchpad not working in Karmic.

[jbeaudin1]

I can scroll up and down, and move the cursor, but selecting a link by tapping the touchpad does not work, nor do other tapping functions, such as highlighting text. The buttons work fine.

Using Ubuntu 9.10, Acer Extensa 4420, 64-bit.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:48:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Please could you attach some log files like "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" and "dmesg > dmesg.txt" to your report.

[jbeaudin1 (truthhurts2)]

Sorry, I'm still new to Ubuntu- how do I go about getting those files?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

You have to run in a terminal "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > Xorg.log" and "dmesg > dmesg.txt", this command will generate a copy of this log files in your home directory, then you have to attach them into this report.

[jbeaudin1 (truthhurts2)]

Ok, thanks. I've attached the first one; the dmesg.txt came up blank.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Could you include your "/var/log/messages", is very rare that dmesg ouput returns empty.
Regards

[jbeaudin1 (truthhurts2)]

Ok, tried it again today and the dmesg.txt came up and I've attached it. I ran /var/log/messages too, but couldn't find a text document anywhere, so I copied what was in the terminal and pasted it into a text document; Will attach in another post. Thank you.

jb

[jbeaudin1 (truthhurts2)]

Here is the /var/log/messages file. Thanks.

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