Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:

>fre, 20.05.2005 kl. 05.57 skrev David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud):
>  
>
>>> Unfortunately, I'm headed out of town on Friday so this is a "seagull 
>>> comment" (fly in, crap all over the place, then leave) but 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.  It then appears to work in both text (gpm) and 
>>> X-windows.
>>    
>>
>Hmm... Could this touchpad trick have anything to do with this bug?:
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156418
>
>
>
>  
>
No.  The system is an HP laptop (zv6015) that has no PS/2 port. 

I got the system up and running with a USB mouse and then discovered 
that I could get the Synaptics Touchpad working by compiling the kernel 
with psmouse as a module and automating the module load/unload in 
rc.local.  On a clean boot with say the stock 1319 kernel, the touchpad 
is dead but the same kernel recompiled with psmouse as a module works 
fine. 

I haven't tried the possible combinations and permutations of having/no 
having a USB mouse plugged in at boot.  Also, I see the same behavior 
with gpm before starting X.  The mouse is defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Dave