On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:52 -0600, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote: > 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. Are there any messages in dmesg? Have you put this in bugzilla if so what bz#? If not please file a bug against the kernel and CC me in. Rather than restarting can you try manipulating the psmouse via drvctl on the stock kernel. serioN may vary but you can do: echo -n "psmouse" > /sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/serio0/drvctl Does that improve matters? Paul