Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues

[Marshall Lewis]

I forgot to mention.. I ended up having to recompile the kernel anyway
to fix the clock issue (clock running at double speed... that is.. 1
minute wall time would be 2 minutes system time).  If anyone else is
having that issue with the compaq r4000 or the hp zv6000, do a google
search on "timerhack", and you can find a patch/hack in one of the
kernel mailing lists.


--
 Marshall


On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:58 -0400, Marshall Lewis wrote:
> Somewhere (I can't remember where, and couldn't find it again when
> googling) I found a way to do it without recompiling.  I believe the
> solution was to issue a "reset" command to the serio device...
> something like
> 
> echo -n "reset" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl
> 
> but.. I'm not sure if "reset" was the right command.. but I think drvctl
> was the right place to send the command.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:37 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:57:34PM -0600, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote:
> > > ... I just 
> > > managed to get my Synaptics Touchpad working on an HP Pavilion zv6015 
> > > with test 3 x86_64.  The *really dumb* trick turned out to be to 
> > > recompile the kernel with psmouse as a module.  Doing a simple "modprobe 
> > > -r psmouse" followed by a "modprobe psmouse" is sufficient to find the 
> > > Synaptics touchpad.
> > 
> > I have no way to test that but in the case like the above I would
> > try to boot with 'psmouse.proto=imps' or  'psmouse.proto=bare' (or
> > even dig through sources for other possible values of this option).
> > It is quite possible that this would help without a kernel
> > recompilation.
> > 
> >    Michal
> > 
>