[SOLVED] zorin os9 ultimate touchpad settings, and wifi

Dear Forum,

I don't seem to be able to change the left and right buttons on my touchpad. Swapping left and right in 'mouse and touchpad' settings doesn't seem to make any difference.

Also something strange has happened with my wifi. It didn't work, and I tried, but failed to install the Broadcom Windows driver. But now, when I started up my laptop this evening the wifi is working fine.
Best wishes,
Ted

Can you please post the result of the command

xinput list

Dear madvinegar,
here is the output of 'xinput list' that you requested:-


⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Truevision HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wireless hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

Best wishes,
Ted

Run the command in terminal

Code:

xinput set-button-map 12 3 2 1

And see if your touchpad buttons have changed from right to left.
If yes, to make the change permanent after reboot, open "startup applications" from the zorin menu and add an entry with the following info:

In name write: Invert Touchpad buttons
In command write:

Code:

sh -c "xinput set-button-map 12 3 2 1"

Leave the comments blank. No need to write something there.

Save and reboot to see if it works.


PS. Is all ok with your wireless?

Dear madvinengar,

many thanks for your posts.

The suggestion you made about the touchpad buttons works fine. The buttons are swapped on re-booting.

As for the wifi, it works on startup, but then drops out, although the applet on the taskbar shows that I am still connected. To re-connect I have to restart the machine.

Best wishes,
Ted.

So we solved the touchpad "inverted buttons" problem.

As regards the wifi, please post back the result of the following commands just to see if I can find a solution.

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
sudo lshw -c network

Dear madvinegar,

here are the results of the two commands:-

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:b723]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2231]
Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2268]
Kernel driver in use: r8169

sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 90:48:9a:0f:8c:09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723be driverversion=3.13.0-34-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.81 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:28 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fe900000-fe903fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: 6c:c2:17:60:97:97
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:79 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fe814000-fe814fff memory:fe810000-fe813fff memory:fe800000-fe80ffff

Many thanks for all your help,
Best wishes,
Ted.

When you say that the wireless works on startup but then drops, after how much time? Immediately or after 5-10 minutes for example?

In any case, I have found that the correct way to install your driver is to run the following commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723be
cd rtl8723be
git checkout 604aa9058fb9e5bb1cf571c99989d081f8fc8b9
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtl8723be

Then, if you are experiencing disconnections, in order to prevent the WiFi card from automatically sleeping and halting connection, run the following command:

Code:

echo "options rtl8723be fwlps=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf

and reboot.

Dear madvinegar,

unfortunately after I run the first set of commands the system freezes during reboot.

Best wishes,
Ted.

Dear madvinegar,

I have re-installed Zorin, and everything seems to be working fine, the wifi is not dropping out, so you can mark this query as being solved.

Best wishes,
Ted

Hi, glad you are sorted - have marked as [SOLVED]

Hi - ok, so resurrecting an old thread but it's probably the cleanest way for me to ask. I am totally a newbie here; got my 88-year old Dad a Lenovo G50-30 laptop 64-bit for X-mas...the dreaded Windows 8.1 ain't gonna work. He's used to XP. Start checking out Zorin 9 Core 64 bit for dual-boot, things are pretty good but running into the same issue as ted_uk in regards to the wifi dropping but showing still connected, and then working again upon reboot. I have confirmed that I have the rtl8723be wifi chip in this pig. Great solution by madvinegar above...only one issue; when I go check out github for rtl8723be, I see this: rtl8723be: Remove obsolete files
Use http://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git instead.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
master
commit 986358bc0b32aea2bb2c041b3547db0dee58b750 1 parent 01b44fd

So...being UTTERLY clueless with terminal and cryptic command line stuff, I get a bit freaked out. Could a kind understanding soul tell me what to input into the terminal to bring in the driver? I do have access to the Win 8 driver files but the comment above by madvinegar '...I have found that the correct way to install your driver is to run the following commands:...' makes me suspect that I really should do this thru the terminal. Thanks for your tolerance of a clueless Windows convert. I do love Zorin 9 so far and will be running it myself on at least one of my rigs,

TB