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zeveck
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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Location: Boston, MA
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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: Touchpad Problems |
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My laptop is an Alienware Sentia, and I believe it has a Synaptics Touchpad.
During startup I am getting:
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Synaptics Touchpage, model: 1
Firmware: 5.9
180 degree mounted touchpad
Sensor: 18
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> four buttons
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad on isa0060/serio2
psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio3
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio3
psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio3
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But once the system boots and I am in, say, KDE the touchpad works basically fine...
I have x11-misc/synaptics 0.14.1 installed.
Everything works basically spiffy...I just wondered what these errors are and if there is a way to get rid of them. |
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Benjamin1
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
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Benjamin1
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: nice for kernel developers |
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This is, what the maintainer of the driver wrote me. It seems to be a kernel problem. Can some gentoo kernel developer comment on this?
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>From the i8042 debug output, it looks like the kernel tries to enable a
pass-through device on the touchpad, even though the identification info
says the touchpad doesn't have a pass-through device. (A pass-through
device is usually a pointing stick.)
When reading the driver source code for 2.6.12, it seems like this could
not happen. Maybe gentoo is patching the kernel driver somehow. Do you get
the same problem when using a vanilla kernel from www.kernel.org? |
thanks, it would be nice to have that solved. Because my touchpad doesn't work at all.... |
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