Hi there,
I have a thinkpad P1Gen2 with a pointer stick, left middle & right click buttons, and a clickpad that lets you push and feel a click anywhere on the pad, and the touch portion supports multitouch.
I was amazed everything worked out of the box, and that the only exception was the click part of the clickpad.
libinput debug-events remains silent when I perform these clicks.
I searched around and read (but cannot find again) a somewhat related thread wherein a CL dev suggested whatever touchpad support the OP was asking about required recompiling the kernel, that a specific flag had been disabled because event polling (iirc) causes slowdowns for micro context switching in cloud situations.
Any thoughts how I could enable the laptop clickpad in clearlinux?
Thanks!
@pixelgeek That’s the one! Thank you and nice job finding that article. So with that article as context I wonder if clickpad clicking is known to be disabled at the kernel level, or if I should look elsewhere for why this is disabled, or how to even diagnose this?
I had issues with my laptop touchpad about one year ago and I had to use a mouse and then switched to another system but I’ve just updated CL and now my touchpad seems to work well !!
has that “event polling kernel flag” been reenabled ? does this have a negative impact on performance ??
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