I doubt that my hardware is too new. It is a Dell Latitude E6410 that I bought second hand a couple of years ago. :)

How would I go about upgrading to a backported kernel? Is there a repo somewhere I can use or do I need to build it myself?

/fuumind


On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:27:39 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:01:46AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> > On 26 April 2016 at 02:00, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
> > > I recently did a devuan-based install on a quite new Dell laptop.
> > > Many things did not work properly (sound, wlan, touchpad). A newer
> > > "backport" kernel sorted it all.
> > >
> > > On 25 April 2016 at 20:19, fuumind <fuumind@???> wrote:
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> I am trying to get touchpad scrolling working on my new Devuan setup. So far I've figured out that it is probably pmouse that is driving the hardware by stealing the following from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131432/which-driver-is-handling-my-touchpad :
>
>
> I've been using devuan since sometime last year on an old eeepc
> netbook, maybe 5 years old. It just worked. Could it be that your
> hardware is too new? I find its touchpad to be something of a nuisance.
> I touch it by accident and things go strange. I prefer to use my USB
> wireless mouse.
>
> David Hare had success with a backported kernel.
>
> I've had problems like this a few times with new hardware. My ten year
> old server wouldn't do X when it was new. Regular updates, and it
> worked fine after about six months.
>
> Mind you, as a server it was OK that it only did text terminals for a
> while.
>
> -- hendrik
>
> > >>
> > >> lsmod|grep -iE "apple|cyapa|sermouse|synap|psmouse|vsxx|bcm"
> > >>
> > >> and getting
> > >>

> > >> psmouse                99249  0

> > >>
> > >> Apart from this all I seem to be able to find on the net is alot about setting up X for synaptics.
> > >>
> > >> As I am unsure how to proceed I would appreciate any guidance!
> > >>
> > >> /fuumind
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