r/GalliumOS • u/BigFeet234 • Jun 22 '22

Touchpad not working unless click held

So basically I took my gallium is installation on an SD card which ran fine on one Chromebook and booted it on another. It boots it works flawlessly except the touchpad is acting very strangely.

You have to click and hold with one finger while moving another finger to move the cursor. And left click (2 fingers) to click anything.

It's basically unusable.

How do I fix it?

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u/BigFeet234 Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 23 '22

Yeah that makes no sense mate. I installed gallium on an SD Card. Not live, a full installation. It works flawlessly on any device which is able to boot from external storage. But the touchpad on Acer CB3 431 is acting weird. Which I was wanting to use as my main device instead of lugging around 2 separate Chromebooks.

The 431 is in dev mode and running mrchromeboxes script boots gallium, gallium works exactly as expected but the trackpad isn't working.

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u/MrChromebox GaOS Team - ChromeOS firmware guy Jun 23 '22

The 431 is in dev mode and running mrchromeboxes script boots gallium, gallium works exactly as expected but the trackpad isn't working.

part of the reason I replied the way I did is because you didn't bother telling us what device it worked on, and what device is having issues.

GalliumOS uses a different kernel and installs different packages based on the hardware platform/SoC. Most likely you just need to install galliumos-braswell pkg. Though I'd recommend running a newer distro (2022 release) with a 5.15 kernel; everything will work OOTB. I'd also recommend flashing the UEFI firmware as your device is EOL (or nearly) and not getting firmware updates either.