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Description of problem:After upgrading my Lenovo T-420 Thinkpad laptop from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 (using fedup) upon rebooting the touchpad no longer works as it should. I AM able to move the mouse cursor on-screen with the touchpad but the one finger scrolling option and the tap-to-click features no longer work. Also there is no setting or option for them in Settings anymore. All that appears there now is : GENERAL Primary Button [Left] - [Right] MOUSE Mouse Speed (Here there's a scrollbar to either increase or decrease the speed of the mouse. Natural Scrolling [On] - [Off] And that's it, seems the options for turning the touchpad on or off are missing as is the option for disabling the mouse when typing. The "Test Your Settings" still appears at the top right hand corner of the app window, but I can only use the actual hardware buttons and not the touchpad to either scroll or click on anything Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Workstation 23 How reproducible: Happens every time I install FC23 and try tp upgrade to FC24 on this Lenovo Thinkpad T-420 laptop. Steps to Reproduce: 1. - Install Fedora 23 Workstation 2. - Perform updates via terminal using 'dnf update dnf' then "dnf update' 3. - Afer all updates have been installed in terminal (logged in as root account)type: fedup --network 24 --product=workstation Actual results: After reboot, machine brings up login screen, after logging in mouse/touchpad has limited functionality. Expected results: To log in and be able to "tap-to-click" on items in the launcher located on the left-hand side of the display.. Additional info: Output from lspci [janus@localhost ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34) 0d:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 08)
It's possible you didn't have xorg-x11-drv-libinput prior to upgrade Without it, you should have access to all the adjustable synaptics options, libinput has for less options.
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #1) > It's possible you didn't have xorg-x11-drv-libinput prior to upgrade > > Without it, you should have access to all the adjustable synaptics options, > libinput has for less options. Can it REALLY be as simple as a "dnf install xorg-11*"? or will I find myself traveling through "Dependency Hell"? Could I just pull that from a LIveCD? or would I need to go the re-installation route? (I've been hapily chugging along with Fedora since about 15/16...and I don't plan on switching or leaving now...so I'll do what needs to be done to get this issue fixed. Thank you for assisting me, I will seek out a method of getting xorg-11 and any other dependencies that might be needed.
You don't need to install anything new, but only do: dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-libinput so the system will fallback to using the classic synaptics driver (with more options).
@Rex Dieter: That didnt' work, but you know what DID? The absolute REVERSE. I INSTALLED the xorg-x11-drv-libinput and rebooted the machine, seems everything is working now. I'm wondering if the installation didn't somehow remove the xorg files I needed? Interesting to say the least. And thank you Sir for your help! I'd have been stuck with this issue for Lord knows how long, since I have less available time than I did previously.