This is an ancient bug, I noticed it since I bought my notebook. Synaptics PS/2 touchpad is not detected and is not shown in /dev/input/event* if I hold a keyboard key down when booting just started. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html