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Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode



Hello,

dinar qurbanov, le lun. 09 déc. 2019 21:00:46 +0300, a ecrit:
> "Dinar, could you try the image from
> http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/mini.iso
> to see whether it helps? "
> 
> i have downloaded it but then become afraid , that malware may be
> there.

You are right to being cautious :)

But you can download through https with

https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/mini.iso

to make sure that it is coming from the people.debian.org domain,
which only Debian Developers like myself can put data on. And Debian
Developers can already upload anything to the Debian archive, see for
instance your /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz to see that you
are already using packages that I have uploaded to Debian. I have signed
this mail, for good measure.

> > "This bug report is unlikely to be actionable unless you specify
> > *exactly* which model of computer you are using.  There are literally
> > hundreds of different touchpad devices out there."
> 
> i was going to write exact laptop model, but i became afraid that this
> information can help somebody to infect my laptop's firmwares.

Not unless they have a way to actually reach your laptop.

> and seems that info is not useful to know out exact touchpad model.

It definitely is! Depending on the laptop brand and manufacture, making
the touchpad work will vary. On my XPS13, it is connected through i2c to
a PCI intel lpss card. On another laptop, exactly the same model of
touchpad could be connected another way, thus requiring another driver.

Samuel

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