I successfully installed Zorin OS 18 Core on my old laptop, but need some hardware support

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I installed Zorin OS 18 Core on my Lenovo IdeaPad 1i. But I might need some drivers support on it. The touchpad is kinda awkward to use. The touchpad only primarily clicks just about anywhere, you can also scroll with two fingers sliding up and down on it. But the secondary click is awkward, you can only tap your two fingers simultaneously on the touchpad, just to open the little menu or secondary click on an item.

My laptop is a Lenovo 1 14IGL7, and my hardware has this:

  • CPU: Intel N4020 1.1GHz
  • RAM: 4GB
  • Storage: 64GB EMMC
  • GPU: Integrated
  • Display: 14.0
  • Battery: 3CELL, L21M3PF0 11.25V/42WH

Any drivers I can be provided to improve my old laptop a lot better and easy to use? I would be very thankful, and smooth compute with ease. Thanks!

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Hello and welcome,

You can to update the synaptics driver

sudo apt update
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
sudo reboot

You cann also check this, if your touchpad still feels unresponsive after driver updates, disable PS/2 Mouse Emulation in BIOS:

  1. Restart and enter BIOS (usually Fn + F2 or F10 during startup for Lenovo)
  2. Look for PS/2 Mouse Emulation or Integrated Peripherals and disable it
  3. Save and exit

This can resolve I2C (touchpad communication) timing issues on modern Lenovo IdeaPads.

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Welcome to the Forum!

Maybe try it with Zorin Lite. The Specs are more low. Also Your Storage could be a Point, too.

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Heres the link if you need to find the lite version

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Thank you, it worked!

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Great, don't forget to mark the solution as resolved

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