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Re: touchpad??

lok1950 — Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:05 pm

Author: lok1950

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:05 pm

So now you know just don't use the lappy with power supply just use it to charge the batteries besides it's better to drain them before recharge anyway.Good luck with it paul.

Enjoy the Choice

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:32 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:32 pm

Re: touchpad??

Rhakios — Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:19 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:19 pm

Sounds like an internal short or bad earth from the power connector. Try wetting your hand, standing in a bucket of water and touching any metal bits of the laptop while it's plugged in. If you get fried, you'll know that's the problem.

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:57 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:57 am

anyway i've plugged the charger back in and the touchpad is dodgy again??

Re: touchpad??

nelz — Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:58 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:58 pm

1slipperyfish (troll) wrote:

i don't know if i mentioned it but i got this laptop from my daughter so i could badly wite code

You don't need another computer to wite badly...

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:18 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:18 pm

thanks for that ive a good mind to start my stalking regime again
paul

Re: touchpad??

Rhakios — Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:14 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:14 pm

Just make sure you flop up onto dry land, being a wet fish, you should be well earthed enough not to need the band on your fin.

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:35 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:35 pm

Rhakios wrote:

Did you get to the second sentence in my reply?

yeah is that C:\user\paul\var\logs???
STOP PRESS::::::: i don't know if i mentioned it but i got this laptop from my daughter so i could badly wite code/play linux etc and if it went tu all our photos and personal files are on my pc, anyway i have bought a new battery and flashed the bios update and the battery is recognised ta da! so i finally unpluged the psu and hey presto the touchpad works, do i need to strip it down and put a barrier under the touchpad or do i need to wear and anti-stat band when it's plugged in???
paul

Re: touchpad??

nelz — Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:48 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:48 pm

Do you really expect 1sf to understand the concept of sentences when he has never used a punctuation mark?

Re: touchpad??

Rhakios — Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:20 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:20 pm

Did you get to the second sentence in my reply?

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:13 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:13 pm

i already have but thats not the point, i think i might have to get a screwdriver to it
paul

Re: touchpad??

Rhakios — Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:05 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:05 pm

1slipperyfish (troll) wrote:

i haven't got a basket or a woodburner?? what the h##l am i supposed to do now this touchpad is costing me a fortune at poker
paul

Plug a mouse in instead?

Logs, as you ought to know by now, are found in /var/log. But changes in system status can often be seen by running dmesg in a terminal shortly after the critical event.

Re: touchpad??

Dutch_Master — Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:43 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:43 pm

Busted.... He's smarter then he wants us to think... I suspect it's actually Mike in disguise (bad one at that, btw )

Re: touchpad??

1slipperyfish — Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:18 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:18 pm

towy71 wrote:

stop playing poker

no way, i'm off down b&q tomorrow for one of these 'woodburners' and some of these 'logs'
paul

Re: touchpad??

towy71 — Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:55 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:55 pm

stop playing poker