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Touchpad right click button not working with Ubuntu 20.04 on Precision 7750
Touchpad right click button is not working. I can open right click menu with two finger tap, but I'd prefer that the physical button worked as well. I've live booted 18.04 from USB and touchpad middle click button wasn't working along with the right click. This tells me that it's most likely a faulty driver rather than a hardware issue. For a while even the left button wasn't working, but then it just came back, I'm not sure if that was something that I did since at the time I was installing, tweaking things and constantly rebooting. I've tried the stock and latest kernel versions. Any ideas?
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Posted June 30th, 2020 06:00
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Posted July 10th, 2020 08:00
I'm having the same issue with my new Precision 7750, any ideas if there exists an updated driver or some other ways to fix this issue?
Thanks.
I am experiencing a similar/same problem on my Precision 7550 with Ubuntu 20.04. I have already updated the BIOS to 1.4.0.
When I run [xinput test 13 | grep "button press"] (ID 13 is the touchpad physical buttons) I only get the middle button as showing a 2 when pressed. The left and right touch pad buttons do not give any feedback during this test.
When I'm using the touchpad left button, I can click and hold it down and it allows me to highlight text. On the right button, when I click it after the keyboard backlighting is off, the keyboard backlighting comes back on. So I know that these buttons are at least partially active and there is no hardware problem.
Same problem here. Any solutions @DELL-Cares ?
rakesh9920
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Posted October 6th, 2020 19:00
Hi, I am also facing the same problem. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on Alienware laptop. I am right now using a mouse to get the right click option. The right click option on touchpad works fine on Windows OS, but somehow while on linux there is always a problem.
This has worked for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39mvMeAxDw
Required restart, though (unlike in the video).
spaceballs-one
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Posted January 8th, 2021 10:00
This works now without doing anything special, I guess some firmware or kernel-update did it. I'm using Kubuntu-20.10 with all updates, nothing special
CodeMage
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Posted June 30th, 2020 05:00
So I booted up Windows 10 and the right button is working just fine, I guess this just confirms the issue is linux driver related.