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HP Mini 210 touchpad issues

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Some variations of the HP Mini 210 netbook have the left and right click buttons incorporated into the touchpad itself. This allows you to use the entire space for navigating the mouse, but when you click one of the buttons (their areas are marked off by white paint) that button area no longer works like a touchpad, but the rest of the pad does. In ubuntu, the right click does not work for right click functions at all, and when you left-click, then drag with another finger on the rest of the touchpad area the cursor jumps and you cannot control it consistently, like when you try to navigate on a normal touchpad with two fingers and the curso jumps across the screen.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

is this a comment or a problem that you want help with?

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James (james-abdow) said : 		#2

This is a problem, a hardware support related bug. My understanding is that the bug reports pertaining to hardware support don't go in the general bug-support area, so I thought they go here? Should this have gone in the bug report section?

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#3

personally, what i think they did with the touchpad is ludicrous.
i'm assuming that you need a special touchpad driver to make the thing work.
i find that ubuntu's implementation of the touchpad works better than other distros.
yours is a special case situation. if they changed how the touchpad works, it will affect the function of everyone else's touchpad.
what i'd do is attach a mouse and use that instead.

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James (james-abdow) said : 		#4

That makes sense. I wasn't sure if the touchpad drivers work in such a way that they could maybe detect certain characteristics, or model types, and then load model-specific parameters and operating procedures. I really do wish HP just built this thing with separate buttons though

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

echo "options psmouse proto=exps" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf

Reboot to test.

Source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1388164

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James (james-abdow) said : 		#6

That worked perfectly! Thank you! I remember trying to fixes that were discussed in a different threat, involved editing synaptics files and such, and only partially worked, but this is amazing, and worked so well.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

No worries dude. I suggest you archive the solution in case of reinstall

Please mark as solved.

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James (james-abdow) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.