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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch
of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Using Regedit, I've navigated to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse The setting Mouse Sensitivity I've changed from 10 to 5, and now currently 3. Maybe I'm imagining things or haven't tested long enough, but I haven't made my usual 'mistakes' yet since this. Or maybe this setting is absolutely something else? (There is nothing there from Synaptics, Elan or Alps.) Alan Sundry wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
Archos Cesium 140 They do not provide an online user manual, just a very short and nearly worthless overview manual. You sure there is no Fn+Fkey keyboard combo to disable the touchpad? I searched for a pic of its keyboard and found: http://www.archos.com/img/products/t...m-large_01.png When I zoom in on that pic, I can recognize some of the Fn+Fkey combos. Fn+F6 and Fn+F7 is for brightness control. Fn+F1 might be to enable/disable the wifi support. Fn+F3/F4/F5 are volume up/down/mute. What does the Fn+F2 combo do? It has a picture of toggling a mouse device. Maybe that is for the touchpad. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Yes, fn and F2 can toggle the touchpad, which will be useful sometimes.
Really want to tame the tapping and gestures though. Thanks. VanguardLH wrote: Alan Sundry wrote: Archos Cesium 140 They do not provide an online user manual, just a very short and nearly worthless overview manual. You sure there is no Fn+Fkey keyboard combo to disable the touchpad? I searched for a pic of its keyboard and found: http://www.archos.com/img/products/t...m-large_01.png When I zoom in on that pic, I can recognize some of the Fn+Fkey combos. Fn+F6 and Fn+F7 is for brightness control. Fn+F1 might be to enable/disable the wifi support. Fn+F3/F4/F5 are volume up/down/mute. What does the Fn+F2 combo do? It has a picture of toggling a mouse device. Maybe that is for the touchpad. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: What does the Fn+F2 combo do? It has a picture of toggling a mouse device. Maybe that is for the touchpad. Yes, fn and F2 can toggle the touchpad, which will be useful sometimes. Really want to tame the tapping and gestures though. Those aren't defined in the Mouse app in Control Panel? https://www.windowscentral.com/how-c...nce-windows-10 Although that article doesn't show anything related to gestures, I've used mouse software that added a tab to the Mouse Properties dialog for more options. Is there a tray icon for the mouse? That's one of the options that a 3rd party driver might add (and seen as an additional tab in the Mouse Properties dialog). Enable the option to show the mouse tray icon. Then right-click on the mouse tray icon which may have the gestures option for you to disable. http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-tu...in-windows-10/ That says for some touchpads that you use the Setting app to get at the touchpad settings and then disable the features you want. I found a Microsoft rep in a forum stating: From the description provided, I understand that you want to disable the track pad gestures in Windows. Please be informed that this feature to interact with Windows is an inbuilt feature and depends on the brand and model of touchpad. So, it is not possible to disable the gesture feature of the touchpad you are referring to. If the driver for the touchpad does not expose the gesture options in the Settings wizard or as another tab in the Mouse Properties dialog, they've given you no means to alter those features. Are the tapping features (whatever those are beyond single and double-clicking) and gesture features present only in a single program, like the web browser, or are they present in every program, even in Notepad? Some programs, like web browsers (with add-ons), add their own gestures feature. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
Yes, fn and F2 can toggle the touchpad, which will be useful sometimes. Really want to tame the tapping and gestures though. Thanks. VanguardLH wrote: Alan Sundry wrote: Archos Cesium 140 They do not provide an online user manual, just a very short and nearly worthless overview manual. You sure there is no Fn+Fkey keyboard combo to disable the touchpad? I searched for a pic of its keyboard and found: http://www.archos.com/img/products/t...m-large_01.png When I zoom in on that pic, I can recognize some of the Fn+Fkey combos. Fn+F6 and Fn+F7 is for brightness control. Fn+F1 might be to enable/disable the wifi support. Fn+F3/F4/F5 are volume up/down/mute. What does the Fn+F2 combo do? It has a picture of toggling a mouse device. Maybe that is for the touchpad. If this was my machine, I'd use Device Manager (in the Start - right-click menu), to have a look at the Properties of the device in question. You can see a plug and play number in this picture. From that, I would attempt to track down the maker of the item, and from there, it might be possible to find a full-featured driver for it. https://s13.postimg.org/u9r5cs2zr/mouse_details.gif Things like Trackpads, they start (when no driver is installed) as a HID device. Like a mouse. Later, when you install a filter driver on top of the HID, that filter driver extracts "gestures" from the device character stream. An associated branded Control Panel may give control of any virtual features added by the filter driver. Plug and play on that subsystem is far from perfect. A few products were actually connected to a 16550 serial port (inside the SuperI/O), and had almost no identifiers at all to work with. The company driver provided would install over top of *any* HID device, leading to chaos. There have been some pretty bad products in that regard. If the device is USB, it might be in the first list. These are informally maintained lists by volunteers, as the "real" lists are "hidden" from public view. And as such, the lists can never be complete. But these are the sort of thing we have to work with. http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids VID:PID http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids VENEV If your hardware scanning utility can't identify it, sometimes those web pages have a hint as to what it is. Paul |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:16:26 +0000, Alan Sundry
wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. Instead of trying to switch of the tapping you should try to switch it off. Look for a touchpad driver for your laptop. You may be able to use one made for a different version of Windows, |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 11:01:15 +0000, Alan Sundry
wrote: Using Regedit, I've navigated to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse The setting Mouse Sensitivity I've changed from 10 to 5, and now currently 3. Maybe I'm imagining things or haven't tested long enough, but I haven't made my usual 'mistakes' yet since this. Or maybe this setting is absolutely something else? (There is nothing there from Synaptics, Elan or Alps.) You need this. http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Alan Sundry wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:00:40 +0000, Alan Sundry
wrote: Yes, fn and F2 can toggle the touchpad, which will be useful sometimes. Really want to tame the tapping and gestures though. Thanks. You need this. http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html VanguardLH wrote: Alan Sundry wrote: Archos Cesium 140 They do not provide an online user manual, just a very short and nearly worthless overview manual. You sure there is no Fn+Fkey keyboard combo to disable the touchpad? I searched for a pic of its keyboard and found: http://www.archos.com/img/products/t...m-large_01.png When I zoom in on that pic, I can recognize some of the Fn+Fkey combos. Fn+F6 and Fn+F7 is for brightness control. Fn+F1 might be to enable/disable the wifi support. Fn+F3/F4/F5 are volume up/down/mute. What does the Fn+F2 combo do? It has a picture of toggling a mouse device. Maybe that is for the touchpad. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:16:26 +0000, Alan Sundry wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. Instead of trying to switch of the tapping you should try to switch it off. Look for a touchpad driver for your laptop. You may be able to use one made for a different version of Windows, Those Hardware IDs only ever point to masic mouse stuff, as if there were no touchpad on this laptop. The manufacturor of the laptop, Archos, seemingly don't reply to emails or do aftersales, so I still don't know the brand. I think I'll open the machine up and look for markings, even ones that might be useful if I get hold of a magnifying glass. I've been looking at the registry, and the regitry of my dad's laptop, which has a Synaptics touchpad, and wondering if parameters can be transplanted at all into the mouse section of mine, or at least something like this. But I suppose the values and so on are imported into Windows by the driver and are not ones native to Windows that the driver fine-tunes? But then that does make me wonder how the touchpad works at all. Somehow all those gestures and so on are making sense to the machine, to Wndows and specific applications. |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
Lucifer Morningstar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:16:26 +0000, Alan Sundry wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. Instead of trying to switch of the tapping you should try to switch it off. Look for a touchpad driver for your laptop. You may be able to use one made for a different version of Windows, Those Hardware IDs only ever point to masic mouse stuff, as if there were no touchpad on this laptop. There are different PNP schemes for the various busses. There is VID:PID and VENEV, which have plenty of bits to be used to look up the actual device information. Some devices, the hardware company decides it's a good idea to support "cloaking", so they allow laptop company to connect their own 2K chip to the device with custom declaration info. This makes it more difficult to track the chip to the real manufacturer. I could also go to the manufacturer and have them remove markings from the chip entirely (chips with no laser-mark). About all you can do, without opening the machine, is scan all the busses, and get the numbers and run them and see what pops up. In a Google search, enter the make and model number of the computer, plus the PNP numbers, and see if anyone has had to track down a driver before for it or not. And right now, you don't even need to do that, as in Device Manager, this "basic mouse" you're finding in there, the Properties and hardware ID in Device Manager, should give you some numbers to work with. Some busses are really hard to work with. I can't remember how whether it's HDAudio or AC'97, but one of those only provides a 12 bit code, suitable for up to 4096 unique devices. Which is one of the most severely cramped busses around. Some Synaptics-style devices, are actually connected via RS232 or TTL-level serial busses, and for those, you're relying on status calls of some sort, or some form of in-band signaling to identify what they are. Such schemes may not be standardized. Or well documented. If you can "see" in Device Manager that the thing sits on the USB bus, the situation should be a lot better than one of the "serial connected" ones. Even a PS/2 flavor one should work to some extent, without having to write code to probe them. For an RS-232 one, you might even end up using HyperTerm to "talk" to the device. That's assuming you can get any sort of hint on the web as to how to do that. There are times when looking inside a computer pays off. But some laptops, you have to use a spudger to remove the bezel and get inside, and many people damage their device cosmetically while doing that (because they don't really understand the "trick" to get in). The electrical connectors inside laptops are fragile, and lack basic protections present on the same sorts of cables used on larger devices (strain relief bar). You can't be a ham-fisted individual when working inside such things. If you've "crushed lightbulbs" while changing them, I would advise against working inside a laptop. Some require disconnecting cables, just to gain visual access. Paul |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Paul wrote:
Alan Sundry wrote: Lucifer Morningstar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:16:26 +0000, Alan Sundry wrote: There is no facility with my laptop and Windows 10 at present to switch of the touchpad's tapping and gestures features, which I've always disliked. In the past I've turned them off with e.g. Synaptics' driver software. This Archos Cesium 140 has not responded to drivers from Synaptics, Alps or Elan - nothing appears on the taskbar. I've reason to believe it's not a Synaptics touchpad anyway - I've used an application called Touchpad Blocker which has a grey-out setting which applies only to Synaptics devices, which presumably wouldn't be greyed out if applicable. If there is no other way to switch of the tapping and gestures, I wondered if it's possible to write a script which will do what I need? It's not always convenient to have the pad disabled and to use a mouse. In Device Manager the touchpad is just a 'HID-compliant mouse', which seems almost as bizarre to me as a floppy drive driver being in place for the eMMc drive. Thanks for any help. Instead of trying to switch of the tapping you should try to switch it off. Look for a touchpad driver for your laptop. You may be able to use one made for a different version of Windows, Those Hardware IDs only ever point to masic mouse stuff, as if there were no touchpad on this laptop. There are different PNP schemes for the various busses. There is VID:PID and VENEV, which have plenty of bits to be used to look up the actual device information. Some devices, the hardware company decides it's a good idea to support "cloaking", so they allow laptop company to connect their own 2K chip to the device with custom declaration info. This makes it more difficult to track the chip to the real manufacturer. I could also go to the manufacturer and have them remove markings from the chip entirely (chips with no laser-mark). About all you can do, without opening the machine, is scan all the busses, and get the numbers and run them and see what pops up. In a Google search, enter the make and model number of the computer, plus the PNP numbers, and see if anyone has had to track down a driver before for it or not. And right now, you don't even need to do that, as in Device Manager, this "basic mouse" you're finding in there, the Properties and hardware ID in Device Manager, should give you some numbers to work with. Some busses are really hard to work with. I can't remember how whether it's HDAudio or AC'97, but one of those only provides a 12 bit code, suitable for up to 4096 unique devices. Which is one of the most severely cramped busses around. Some Synaptics-style devices, are actually connected via RS232 or TTL-level serial busses, and for those, you're relying on status calls of some sort, or some form of in-band signaling to identify what they are. Such schemes may not be standardized. Or well documented. If you can "see" in Device Manager that the thing sits on the USB bus, the situation should be a lot better than one of the "serial connected" ones. Even a PS/2 flavor one should work to some extent, without having to write code to probe them. For an RS-232 one, you might even end up using HyperTerm to "talk" to the device. That's assuming you can get any sort of hint on the web as to how to do that. There are times when looking inside a computer pays off. But some laptops, you have to use a spudger to remove the bezel and get inside, and many people damage their device cosmetically while doing that (because they don't really understand the "trick" to get in). The electrical connectors inside laptops are fragile, and lack basic protections present on the same sorts of cables used on larger devices (strain relief bar). You can't be a ham-fisted individual when working inside such things. If you've "crushed lightbulbs" while changing them, I would advise against working inside a laptop. Some require disconnecting cables, just to gain visual access. ** Paul Thanks. This might be promising. I had been looking up all those Hardware IDs numbers to no avail. They don't lead to any brand-specific stuff to give me a driver. Yes, the connection is USB if that helps. Does that give me anywhere else to look? I see in RegEdit if I do a few searches of 'touchpad' that I'm lead to settings for PrecisionTouchPad, which do involve tapping values. I changed these all from 1 to 0 anywhere I found them, to no avail. Annoyingly I briefly had Debian Linux running on this laptop from a pendrive and the touchpad worked. That might have meant that the brand was named in one of the Linux logs. I can't currently access the BIOS/EUFI because I changed a setting naively that seems to have stopped USB working until Windows is loaded. Sounds a bit harebrained, but I've seldom had a bad consequence like this, and I'm pretty sure it'll soon be undone... So I'll be opening the laptop in my usual careful fashion to see if/ how can reset CMOS, which will let me look at the touchpad. This laptop opens up very safely and easily, six screws and a gentle prising off of the back. If things look beyond me I will give up, but in the meantime, before I look, inside directions regarding getting any further hardware IDs as suggested would be appreciated. (Is there even a fourth touchpad manufacturer? Synaptics, Alps, Elan... ?) |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
Thanks. This might be promising. I had been looking up all those Hardware IDs numbers to no avail. They don't lead to any brand-specific stuff to give me a driver. Yes, the connection is USB if that helps. Does that give me anywhere else to look? I see in RegEdit if I do a few searches of 'touchpad' that I'm lead to settings for PrecisionTouchPad, which do involve tapping values. I changed these all from 1 to 0 anywhere I found them, to no avail. Annoyingly I briefly had Debian Linux running on this laptop from a pendrive and the touchpad worked. That might have meant that the brand was named in one of the Linux logs. I can't currently access the BIOS/EUFI because I changed a setting naively that seems to have stopped USB working until Windows is loaded. Sounds a bit harebrained, but I've seldom had a bad consequence like this, and I'm pretty sure it'll soon be undone... So I'll be opening the laptop in my usual careful fashion to see if/ how can reset CMOS, which will let me look at the touchpad. This laptop opens up very safely and easily, six screws and a gentle prising off of the back. If things look beyond me I will give up, but in the meantime, before I look, inside directions regarding getting any further hardware IDs as suggested would be appreciated. (Is there even a fourth touchpad manufacturer? Synaptics, Alps, Elan... ?) Here's my mouse as an example. It's a USB mouse. A HID (Human Interface Device). https://s9.postimg.org/lsyist4lr/mymouse.gif 046d:c01a as the VID and PID, is what I get from Device Manager. Then I look it up: http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 046d Logitech, Inc. ... c01a M-BQ85 Optical Wheel Mouse And that's what it is. What did you get for your unknown device ? Paul |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Paul wrote:
Alan Sundry wrote: Thanks. This might be promising. I had been looking up all those Hardware IDs numbers to no avail. They don't lead to any brand-specific stuff to give me a driver. Yes, the connection is USB if that helps. Does that give me anywhere else to look? I see in RegEdit if I do a few searches of 'touchpad' that I'm lead to settings for PrecisionTouchPad, which do involve tapping values. I changed these all from 1 to 0 anywhere I found them, to no avail. Annoyingly I briefly had Debian Linux running on this laptop from a pendrive and the touchpad worked. That might have meant that the brand was named in one of the Linux logs. I can't currently access the BIOS/EUFI because I changed a setting naively that seems to have stopped USB working until Windows is loaded. Sounds a bit harebrained, but I've seldom had a bad consequence like this, and I'm pretty sure it'll soon be undone... So I'll be opening the laptop in my usual careful fashion to see if/ how *can reset CMOS, which will let me look at the touchpad. This laptop opens up very safely and easily, six screws and a gentle prising off of the back. If things look beyond me I will give up, but in the meantime, before I look, inside directions regarding getting any further hardware IDs as suggested would be appreciated. (Is there even a fourth touchpad manufacturer? Synaptics, Alps, Elan... ?) Here's my mouse as an example. It's a USB mouse. A HID (Human Interface Device). https://s9.postimg.org/lsyist4lr/mymouse.gif 046d:c01a as the VID and PID, is what I get from Device Manager. Then I look it up: http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 046d* Logitech, Inc. ***** ... ***** c01a* M-BQ85 Optical Wheel Mouse And that's what it is. What did you get for your unknown device ? ** Paul The longest entry under the hardware IDS is: USB\VID_1D0B&PID_0021&MI_00 So I gather it's 1D0B and 0021 respectively that I'm looking up on the Linux USB site? Pardon me if I'm not understanding. Just leaving a flu behind... |
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Disabling touchpad tapping with a script?
Alan Sundry wrote:
Paul wrote: Alan Sundry wrote: Thanks. This might be promising. I had been looking up all those Hardware IDs numbers to no avail. They don't lead to any brand-specific stuff to give me a driver. Yes, the connection is USB if that helps. Does that give me anywhere else to look? I see in RegEdit if I do a few searches of 'touchpad' that I'm lead to settings for PrecisionTouchPad, which do involve tapping values. I changed these all from 1 to 0 anywhere I found them, to no avail. Annoyingly I briefly had Debian Linux running on this laptop from a pendrive and the touchpad worked. That might have meant that the brand was named in one of the Linux logs. I can't currently access the BIOS/EUFI because I changed a setting naively that seems to have stopped USB working until Windows is loaded. Sounds a bit harebrained, but I've seldom had a bad consequence like this, and I'm pretty sure it'll soon be undone... So I'll be opening the laptop in my usual careful fashion to see if/ how *can reset CMOS, which will let me look at the touchpad. This laptop opens up very safely and easily, six screws and a gentle prising off of the back. If things look beyond me I will give up, but in the meantime, before I look, inside directions regarding getting any further hardware IDs as suggested would be appreciated. (Is there even a fourth touchpad manufacturer? Synaptics, Alps, Elan... ?) Here's my mouse as an example. It's a USB mouse. A HID (Human Interface Device). https://s9.postimg.org/lsyist4lr/mymouse.gif 046d:c01a as the VID and PID, is what I get from Device Manager. Then I look it up: http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 046d* Logitech, Inc. ****** ... ****** c01a* M-BQ85 Optical Wheel Mouse And that's what it is. What did you get for your unknown device ? *** Paul The longest entry under the hardware IDS is: USB\VID_1D0B&PID_0021&MI_00 So I gather it's 1D0B and 0021 respectively that I'm looking up on the Linux USB site? Pardon me if I'm not understanding. Just leaving a flu behind... Additionally would you have any idea why those PrecisionTouchPad registry values don't apparently interact with anything installed? |
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