Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
fre, 20.05.2005 kl. 05.57 skrev David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud):
Unfortunately, I'm headed out of town on Friday so this is a "seagull
comment" (fly in, crap all over the place, then leave) but 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. It then appears to work in both text (gpm) and
X-windows.
Hmm... Could this touchpad trick have anything to do with this bug?:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156418
No. The system is an HP laptop (zv6015) that has no PS/2 port.
I got the system up and running with a USB mouse and then discovered
that I could get the Synaptics Touchpad working by compiling the kernel
with psmouse as a module and automating the module load/unload in
rc.local. On a clean boot with say the stock 1319 kernel, the touchpad
is dead but the same kernel recompiled with psmouse as a module works
fine.
I haven't tried the possible combinations and permutations of having/no
having a USB mouse plugged in at boot. Also, I see the same behavior
with gpm before starting X. The mouse is defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Dave