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The issue is that on a vanilla ISO the touchpad is dead. You can't use it at all, as in the pointer won't move on the screen. Which makes it a pain to install a
by vladvasiliu 4y ago
The issue is that on a vanilla ISO the touchpad is dead. You can't use it at all, as in the pointer won't move on the screen. Which makes it a pain to install and especially to connect to a wireless network, because these computers don't usually have network ports anymore.
- 10x-dev 4y agoI've been dealing with missing drivers since Windows 3.11. In the case you're describing, I'd connect a USB mouse, or just 'tab' my way through setup.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoSure, there are workarounds, but this is pretty basic functionality, we're not talking about perfect acceleration curves or exotic devices. Hell, I'm pretty sure windows 3.11 didn't need specific drivers for moving my mouse around. And Linux somehow found a way to get it working out of the box. And I'm not talking Ubuntu or Pop OS, but Arch Linux, which comes with ~nothing installed. I just started i3 on top of xorg, and I had a working touchpad. Sure, the movement was shoddy until I configured it, but it was serviceable.