Re: [ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

[Joseph Pingenot <trelane@digitasaru.net>]

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>From Dmitry Torokhov on Monday, 07 February, 2005:
>Is that with -rc1 or -rc2?

-rc1.  With -rc3, I get:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0 
B: EV=120013 
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe 
B: MSC=10 
B: LED=7 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: EV=f 
B: KEY=420 30000 670000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: REL=3 
B: ABS=1000003 

>Anyway, I think Inspiron 8600 has an ALPS touchpad and externded
>support for it just went in in -rc2. I think if you boot with
>psmouse.proto=exps you will get your mouse back (if your psmouse is
>compiled as a module you'll need to add 'options psmouse proto=exps'
>to your /etc/modprobe.conf).

Indeedy.  I'm in -rc1 atm, so I don't want to reboot yet again to see
  if that protocol bit works.  If I end up getting curious enough,
  I'll send word if it works.  :)

>Nonetheless it would be nice to see the data stream from the touchpad
>to see why our ALPS support does not work quite right. Could you
>please try booting with "log_buf_len=131072 i8042.debug=1", and
>working the touchpad a bit. then send me the output of "dmesg -s
>131072" (or just /var/log/messages).

dmesg output, non-mouse output trimmed (for obvious reasons, if you think
  about it ;) is attached.

-Joseph

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      Graduate Student in Physics, Freelance Free Software Developer

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