Notebook mous-touch-pad kernel 2.6.3?

NewB · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 224

I changed kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.3 and i didn't changed my XF86Config.... but now my touch-mouse on the notebook doesn't work anymore.... the usbmouse works great...

what's the problem?

mgraham76 · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Seneca, MO

2.6 kernels change the way they receive mouse events (or something like that, I'm no friggin genius). Anyways, all you should need to do is

blackmax · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

Hi, I also have a problem with the Synaptics touchpad and the same kernel, although it's totally different. I have a have a Compaq Presarrio 2100 laptop, and I'm using kernel 2.6.3 from the gentoo-dev-sources. The thing is the touchpad doesn't even get detected at boot. I compiled evdev and ps2 support into the kernel as per the instructions on the INSTALL file of the Synaptics driver.
The output from dmesg doesn't show any touchpad (dmesg | grep -i syn), and looking for something similar the only thing I found is a ps2 mouse found or something like that.
I tried every possible way of setting the mouse on the XF86Config file as per the posts on all the threads about the touchpad on these forums, and still I can't use it.
I also seem to have problems setting up my usb mouse, I can't get it working (I have hotplug installed and USB support compiled into the kernel).
On /dev/input/ I onlye have 'mice' and 'event0', if I 'cat' them, I can see that event0 is connected to the keyboard, and mice doesn't throw any output at all, not punching the keyboard or pressing the touchpad, nor moving the (plugged) usb mouse.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

blackmax · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

Well, I finally solved the problem changing the kernel (as someone else on another forum did too). I downloaded the mm sources (2.6.4-rc1-mm2) tweaked the kernel a litle bit for my hardware and got the touchpad detected, I have no idea what's different since I used and configured the same options as with the gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.3) kernel, but this time it worked.
Now I'm happily posting here from X with 3D acceleration (ATI IGP 320M) after having compiled like 20 times the kernel and XFree only once (thank god).

caspar · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:

Same problem here.
Took me long time to find this thread.
Smiliar one here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=145821&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=.
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caspar · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

I cannot get it working. Even with the new kernel. Blackmax can you post your XFree86config and the relevant parts of your kernel conf please?
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caspar · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

Ok I got it.
Seems to be a bug.
For all Thinkpad R40 2722-3GG users. Look at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/3/158
and
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=936712

summarisation:
pass i8042.nomux to the kernel at boot time.
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blackmax · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

Luckily I don't have that touchpad (or the bug at least). It sufficed to change the kernel. Thanks for the link and the tip anyway, I'm pretty sure it'll be helpful around here.