Re: 2.6.0-test1: Synaptics driver makes touchpad unusable

[Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>]

Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> writes:

> The new synaptics driver doesn't work with Dell Latitude Touchpad, it doesn't 
> work any /dev/input/event?|mouse? and /dev/psaux neither (altough the same 
> configuration worked at least until 2.5.70).
> 
> I tried with gpm and the X's synaptics driver from 
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html (as indicated in the 
> kernel documentation) and none worked, although "cat < /dev/input/event0" 
> showed garbage every time I touched the touchpad (no pun intended) iff evdev 
> was loaded.
> 
> $ dmesg
> ...
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
> serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> synaptics reset failed
> synaptics reset failed
> synaptics reset failed

You probably need this patch.

--- linux/drivers/input/mouse.resume/psmouse-base.c	Sat Jul  5 23:39:14 2003
+++ linux/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c	Sun Jul  6 00:23:17 2003
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 	psmouse->cmdcnt = receive;
 
 	if (command == PSMOUSE_CMD_RESET_BAT)
-                timeout = 2000000; /* 2 sec */
+                timeout = 4000000; /* 4 sec */
 
 	if (command & 0xff)
 		if (psmouse_sendbyte(psmouse, command & 0xff))

-- 
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340