r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/Pjd1222 member • 5d ago

E480 touchpad troubles

I have a nice little e480 with 16g ram and dual boot to Win11 and Linux Mint. Everything works fine except for the two finger scrolling on the Win11 side. I know my hardware is fine because on the Linux side, scrolling works properly. I have tried the usual cures including downloading the synaptic driver and the overall update from the Lenovo website and it did not work. Scrolling is still elusive with two fingers. However, I can scroll using the left click and red button, or with double click with left click and the touchpad, so it is functional but annoying. I am tempted to just use this machine in Linux and pull the SSd out of it to use it elsewhere. I have read that this is a common problem, and I've tried most of the online suggestions. What is the root cause of this problem so I can fix it, or should I just leave this as a Linux machine? I have a lot of Thinkpads, so it isn't a tragedy if I confine this one to Linux, but I hate having an unsolved software problem. I mean, it' not like a blown motherboard, right? So, anybody out there have the real cure? Thanks

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u/JohnnyS789 member 5d ago

(Offtopic. I hope you don't mind!)

This is a milestone: A system feature works in Linux, but not Win11. Huzzah!

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u/Pjd1222 member 5d ago

Yes, that thought did occur to me. But it was really helpful to know the touchpad and its connector is working fine in Linux and kept me from having to crack the laptop open. Every time one of these old machines is opened, it risks breaking something else!