Synaptics (ALPS) touchpad on HP nx9105 (SOLVED)

[Lotu]

I have tried two different kernels and alps.patches, but have not yet been successful at getting Gentoo recognize my ALPS-touchpad. If I plug an usb mouse in while X is running, the mouse lights up, but either cat /dev/misc/psaux, cat /dev/psaux or cat /dev/input/mice do not react to movement.

I use 2.6.8-gentoo kernel, which I pached with the alps.patch from the Synaptics source. I also tried 2.6.7 with another patch as suggested in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=181269&highlight=event0+alps, but with same results.

So, what is left to try? I know other board users have gotten their nx9105's working.

I'd be grateful for any assistance. Technical stuff below:

1) In /dev/input, I have only one eventX, event0, which is used by the keyboard. I tried creating more with mknod, but it didn't help.
2) cat /proc/bus/input/devices doesn't say anything about any mices
3) I have psmouse as module and evdev, hiddev and about everything else suggested in these forums compiled into kernel.

My xorg.conf below. Yes, I have commented out the touchpad stuff because the kernel doesn't yet recognize it. It is also deliberately not in the ServerLayout section.

[Lotu]

Ha, found it! The kernel requires ohci_hcd to recognize the touchpad. Hope this helps fellow nx9105 owners

[Thnikkaman]

I have the nx9110 with an Alps touchpad, and I have been trying to get this to work. Could you point me towards the alps patch that you talked about in the Synaptics source?

When I look at the kernel messages for the ALPS touchpad, I get:

[swingarm]