I forgot to mention.. I ended up having to recompile the kernel anyway to fix the clock issue (clock running at double speed... that is.. 1 minute wall time would be 2 minutes system time). If anyone else is having that issue with the compaq r4000 or the hp zv6000, do a google search on "timerhack", and you can find a patch/hack in one of the kernel mailing lists. -- Marshall On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:58 -0400, Marshall Lewis wrote: > Somewhere (I can't remember where, and couldn't find it again when > googling) I found a way to do it without recompiling. I believe the > solution was to issue a "reset" command to the serio device... > something like > > echo -n "reset" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl > > but.. I'm not sure if "reset" was the right command.. but I think drvctl > was the right place to send the command. > > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:37 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:57:34PM -0600, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote: > > > ... I just > > > managed to get my Synaptics Touchpad working on an HP Pavilion zv6015 > > > with test 3 x86_64. The *really dumb* trick turned out to be to > > > recompile the kernel with psmouse as a module. Doing a simple "modprobe > > > -r psmouse" followed by a "modprobe psmouse" is sufficient to find the > > > Synaptics touchpad. > > > > I have no way to test that but in the case like the above I would > > try to boot with 'psmouse.proto=imps' or 'psmouse.proto=bare' (or > > even dig through sources for other possible values of this option). > > It is quite possible that this would help without a kernel > > recompilation. > > > > Michal > > >