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p310don

I have acquired an Acer Aspire v5 (found it in a bin actually) which didn't work until Puppy power came to the rescue.

Everything seems to work wonderfully (except 1 & TAB keys) and except for the touchscreen, kind of.

The touch screen works, but it out by at least 50mm from where I touch to where it registers. Until today briefly.

The normal touch pad works great. Except, briefly today double tapping and hard tap to activate a program ie browse from desktop did not work at all. This has been an issue I have seen on other laptops, just use the buttons at the bottom, it isn't as good, but works ok. BUT, I discovered that when the touchpad isn't working 100%, the touchscreen is working perfectly.

I rebooted and the touchpad started working right, and, of course, the screen was out.

Most of the time the touchpad works right, but now that I have seen the screen working right, I want to get it so that both work right.

Does anyone know of / have a driver for such a machine? Or is there a clue for which setting in xorg.conf (I'm assuming) needs adjustment for both to work?

FYI - I am currently using Xen647.5 but had the same screen out of whack issue with Tahr64.

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 11717 Location: S.C. USA

peterw · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 326 Location: UK

bigpup advice is good. It was most probably binned because it was thought to be totally broke. It appears that the top left hand part (1 and tab) area has been damaged by a fall or liquid spill. Strip it down; clean it with brushes and (I use water and little soap) and thoroughly dry. Look for any physical damage. Touchpads, if misbehaving, also can be disassembled and cleaned and often work again.
It looks like with a little effort you have got yourself a good machine.

p310don · Posted: Tue 09 Jan 2018, 07:01 Post subject:

I am certain that there is nothing wrong with the touchscreen because it works when the touchpad isn't working (which has happened twice now and was solved with a reboot).

I bet the reason this PC was binned was one of two things, it didn't boot - corrupted windows boot loader, and I'm pretty sure it was stolen, as there was a bunch of old phones and other paraphernalia in the laptop bag.

peterw · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 326 Location: UK

Googling around I see that people have got the touch screen working. They have used the AMD drivers direct. I would have thought that these or a variant of them should be in the kernel by now. However you could try using these forum post as a guide for what to do.

http://justanyone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/solved-installing-linux-on-acer-aspire.html

https://askubuntu.com/questions/324474/no-screens-found-on-acer-aspire-v5-122-live-disk

foxpup

greengeek

p310don · Posted: Fri 28 Dec 2018, 19:18 Post subject:

I have recently been trying out the latest Fatdog 800B

It mentioned something about touch screens being made to work better.

Thought, hey, that sounds like just what I need on this laptop.

Boot up, no probs, try the touch screen, it is 100% accurate to the touch. Just like the occasional random boot in Xenial.

BUT - as with xenial, when the touch screen is working properly, the touchpad won't click on touch, only the actual buttons work.

Very strange, and I'd suspect greengeek is right about xserver not being about to properly configure two mice at once.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3676 Location: Ontario Canada

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I have an Aspire v5 laptop, I find the touchscreen trackpad work best in Slacko64,works in Bionicpup64 7.6.7 but not as well as Slacko64.

I prefer to use an usb mouse instead of the trackpat/touchscreen so I turn off the trackpad with the fn-f7 combination,accidently hit the trackpad with my thumb when typing which is annoying.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 29 Dec 2018, 03:01 Post subject:

Hello p310don and all.

Am I allowed a "non sequitur" post? Twisted Evil

The title was so tempting!
Source

BFN.

L18L

p310don · Posted: Sat 29 Dec 2018, 17:30 Post subject:

L18L - you're a legend.

Your post made me look harder in Fatdog. In the menu there is a touchscreen calibration tool which doesn't work, so I gave up on it. Upon harder looking in the control panel, there is a touch pad control app, which gave me the tap to click option. Turned it on, and now stuff works.

AWESOME

Great for a laptop from the bin Smile

greengeek · Posted: Mon 31 Dec 2018, 03:02 Post subject:

Does this "touchpad" have visible buttons at the bottom? (or is it actually a "clickpad" with no visible buttons?)

L18L

greengeek