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Re: [trinity-users] A near windows 10 suicide & The ideapad flex 4 of Death - A Horror Story

From: "BorgLabs - Kate Draven" <borglabs4@...>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:45:24 -0400
On Wednesday 19 August 2020, alistair izzard via trinity-users wrote:
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>   On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 19:56, BorgLabs - Kate Draven<borglabs4@...>
> wrote:   Ok, SO...
>
> A neighbour, decide to give me his ideapad flex 4, after seriously
> contemplating suicide rather than continue using win10.
>
> I replaced it with a thinkpad and Ali's Big Daddy PCLOS roll.
> He's very happy, his employer has NO idea Bob's sudden increase in
> productivity has anything to do with linux. So all is well.
>
> I have cleansed the ideapad of the diseased demon and installed Big Daddy
> PCLOS. All is well expect the touch screen doesn't work. Anyone know of any
> packages I need to install? I seem to have all of them.
>
> Until the ideas (pun intended) begin rolling in, I'll continue my research.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kate
> The Great and Terrible.
> I have never had a touch screen to test. There may be a driver missing
> which is why it's not being picked up as a HID. All I see in synaptic is
> x11-driver-input-evtouch and x11-driver-input-fpit and tslib there is
> xinput calibrator as well. Alie 
>
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Yep have all of them installed. Going to have to see if I have evtouch active 
etc. Will get back to you.

Thanks Alie