Drivers, laptop

[lepass_7]

Hey guys i am tottaly newbie with linux and i really need your help! I own acer aspire 3100 (laptop) and recently installed SUSE 11.0. The problem is that keyboard and touchpad doesn't work, it seems to me that is a driver issue, but dont have a clue how to install drivers and most important where to find it. I would appreciate your help.
Thank you in advance!

P.S: Now i am using usb mouse and keyboard, and work perfectly....

[reed9]

Drivers are generally included in the kernel. Anyway, I don't think that's the problem.

There are reports of this laptop working fine under linux.
Linux on Laptops

My guess is that the keyboard didn't get configured properly during the installation. I assume the cd you have is a live CD? I would boot the machine up from the CD and see if the keyboard works in the live environment first.

Post the contents of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'm not too familiar with opensuse, but I believe in YaST, you can configure the keyboard.

You might also try either a different distro and see if it works better or the latest release of suse, 11.1. (And opensuse 11.2 should be out soon-ish.)

[reed9]

More info

Keyboard Configuration - openSUSE

YaST/Modules/Keyboard Layout - openSUSE

[lepass_7]

Hey guys first of all thank you.
I dont use live cd i installed Suse 11.0 on my machine. Keyboard seems to work fine now, but touchpad have the same problem. Could you be more specific what can i do?

[D-cat]

Once the KB is working, the rest should be easier to deal with. The "Control Pane" for the mouse is under Yast.

Yast -> Hardware -> Mouse Model

Here you can change your primary mouse type to any of the listed supported devices. For most laptops, that would be the Synaptics Touchpad.

[lepass_7]

Thank you, i followed your steps yast>hardware>mouse, and i choose "change" next i selected "synaptics" and at the right column "touchpad". I did all that, but i cant use my touchpad! Any other ideas?

[gogalthorp]

Best I can figure the mouse on that model is from KYE Systems. You might do a lsusb and a lspci and see if you can figure what the hardware really is.

If the output confuses you post here someone will interpret.