Inspiron 8100 Trackpoint/Touchpad issue (with solution?)

[Arne Koewing <ark@gmx.net>]

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Hi!
As some people before I had the 'trackpoint does not work' problem 
after upgrading to 2.5.XX:
That was:
     
the trackpoint of your dell won't work until:
    - hibernate and wake up the system again
    - plug in an external mouse (you may remove it immediately)

it seems that dells hardware is disabling the trackpoint if you
probed for the touchpad. 
A device reset after probing does help, but I've no idea how this
would affect other synaptics touchpad devices although I think
most devices will not complain one extra reset.


Arne


patch included:


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--- linux-2.5.65-old/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.c	2003-03-05 04:29:03.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.5.65-dev/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.c	2003-03-24 08:42:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@
                   thing up. */
                psmouse->vendor = "Synaptics";
                psmouse->name = "TouchPad";
+	       psmouse_command(psmouse, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_RESET_BAT);
+	       psmouse_command(psmouse, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_ENABLE);
                return PSMOUSE_PS2;
        }