Tag: synaptics
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Alternate Touchpad Configuration for XPS 9343 Developer Edition Running Ubuntu 15.04
Here is information addressing the lack of palm detection with Ubuntu 15.04. A big shout out to Pilot6 who developed the steps below and shared them with the community on Ask Ubuntu Some customers have reported frustration with the lack of palm detection due to limitations with the Synaptics driver currently implemented in current stable versions of the Linux Kernel. This walkthrough…
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Synaptics Touchpad drivers now in Test Kernels
Great news, yesterday the i2c Linux kernel drivers from Synaptics made it upstream and are in the proposed repository. This is relevant for those Sputnik 3 users who have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to either 13.10 or 14.04 LTS. If you want to start kicking the tires before the drivers hit updates, you can enable the…