stupid touchpad...

[servo888]

I can't for the life of me get this touchpad to work in gentoo... From the live CD the touchpad gets detected just fine as a normal ps/2 mouse. I can even 'use' it to select text in framebuffer. But when I boot my normal system the touch pad doesn't work at all. Dmesg shows "mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice" and that's it. I've enabled evdev, and all the normal mice options in the kernel. It SHOULD work; but it doesn't...

I've already tried starting x as the mouse being /dev/psaux, /dev/mouse, /dev/input/mice, and /dev/input/mouse0. None of these work. I don't want the synaptics driver right now; I just want the touchpad to work like a normal ps/2 mouse as it should.

2.6.6 Kernel, AMD64, NForce3.

[servo888]

I should note it looks like the mouse isn't even being detected on boot. There is not " input: " line in dmesg. This has to be the problem because /proc/bus/input/devices doesn't list the mouse. So the question is what's up with that...

[Quantumstate]

Assuming you're running X or better?

In /etc/X11/XF86Config for Mouse1 set
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

This is like the universal mouse, for ps2 AND usb. Only other problem could be Option "Protocol", which I don't know for that.

Also have a look at this. I think it's really for IPaqs, but:
# This is for example only. Refer to the XF86Config man page for a description of the options.
# **********************************************************************
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen0"
# Driver "microtouch"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "1412"
# Option "MaxX" "15184"
# Option "MinY" "15372"
# Option "MaxY" "1230"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen1"
# Driver "elo2300"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "231"
# Option "MaxX" "3868"
# Option "MinY" "3858"
# Option "MaxY" "272"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonThreshold" "17"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection

[servo888]

That didn't work... and it wont work because the mouse is not being detected upong boot... There should be someplace in dmesg input: generic ps/2 mouse or synaptics touchpad. But there's not, which means that no matter what device node you use; it wont work.

[Quantumstate]

OK, maybe it needs a module. It's about the only answer left.

Boot to livecd and
# lsmod

Look for likely suspects. If you find one, add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2. in your build.

[servo888]

nothing usefull shows up. I've booted the knoppix 2.6 distro and it also doesn't detect my mouse... How strange =-(

[Quantumstate]

Ya, discouraging. I've just spent a full day trying to make proftp & vsftp work. There has to come a point where you ditch it.

Tomorrow, it's Samba for me.

NE1 know how to install the tarball from proftp's site, while letting emerge know? Gentoo's is busted. Need an ftp server one way or another.