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jmroach
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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject: Where's my TOUCHPAD??? [SOLVED] |
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ok, i have gotten most of the install to work with the exception of the graphics card (which i'll save for another post) and the touchpad. I have read a bunch of posts about the touchpad and followed a ton of instructions on what to do.
i don't know if it has anything to do with this, but i'm getting this error on starting gentoo (although it seems to work properly once loaded...)
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!!some local file system failed to mount
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right now in my kernel (kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6) i am using:
Device Drivers--> Input device support-->
<*> Event interface
<*> Mouse-->
<M> PS/2 mouse
i then compile and copy the kernel with the following:
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#make clean
#make && make modules_install
#cp arch/i386/boot/bxImage /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
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i also added "psmouse" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-*.* as suggested in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347360-highlight-touchpad.html
i'm really at a loss here to why it isn't working... any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
-john
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nixnut
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
Not really an initial installation problem, and will probably get better response in Kernel & Hardware |
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jmroach
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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 i have been working on this same problem since friday with absolutely no progress made!!!
I have reconfigured the kernel a number of times and still the computer can's "see" the touchpad. If anyone can offer ANY help whatsoever i would definitely be greatful!!!
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Coltie
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
First: I got also a T43, and the touchpad works perfectly out of the box... hope yours will works soon!
Second, I don't know a lot about touchpad, but in th input device support section, the "provide legacy/dev/psaux device" is also enable...
Not sure at all that this helps...
Good luck.
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jmroach
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| ok, i've officially tried everything i can think of to get this touchpad working. i can't get xorg to start (because of some screen error- if you want to help i posted in Desktop Env. under "xorg crashes "no screens found""), but shouldn't the touchpad move the cursor when gentoo starts? is there another way to tell if it's working? |
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| jmroach wrote: | | ok, i've officially tried everything i can think of to get this touchpad working. i can't get xorg to start (because of some screen error- if you want to help i posted in Desktop Env. under "xorg crashes "no screens found""), but shouldn't the touchpad move the cursor when gentoo starts? is there another way to tell if it's working? |
No, only if you have setup gpm. You can try to cat /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mice to see if it is working (if you move your finger in the mouse or press the buttons, it will output some weird characters).
What's the output of lsmod? I don't know if it makes any difference, but try make modules modules_install
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Hi
What does dmesg says? Is there any info that say that Linux can found the Touchpad
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jmroach
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thanks a ton for the help guys. i just eneded up setting up my xorg.conf with the mouse in /dev/psaux and set up support for that in the kernel. i also disabled all of the touchpad support in the kernel (of which every thinkable configuration was tried  anyway, when i
there was an input being read. after that i was pretty sure it was working- i fixed a bug to do with the graphics driver and xorg and finally everything worked.
thanks again for all of the help. i remembered using that "cat" command before, but i couldn't recall the syntax for it!
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