Re: psmouse unusable in -mm series (was: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 unsusable on DELL Inspiron 8200, 2.6.15-rc1 works fine)

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-25T21:41:31Z

On Friday 25 November 2005 16:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 25 of November 2005 09:22, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:20:25PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Update:
> > >
> > > On Thursday, 24 of November 2005 21:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, 24 of November 2005 13:44, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > > }-- snip --{
> > > > > > It looks like you are seeing a different bug. The one opened for debian user space
> > > > > > covers mousedev not being loaded if the kernel is 2.6.15, which leads to no /dev/input
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > That's what I think, thus the report on LKLM. But noone but me seems to
> > > > > be trapped into it until... :/
> > > >
> > > > FWIW, my touchpad doesn't work with -rc2-mm1 too (usually I use a USB mouse,
> > > > so I didn't notice before). Here's what dmesg says about it:
> > > >
> > > > Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x926eb1, caps: 0x804719/0x0
> > > > input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
> > > >
> > > > The box is an Asus L5D (x86-64).
> > >
> > > Actually, it works on the console (ie with gpm), but X is unable to use it,
> > > apparently. However it used to be, at least on 2.6.14-git9 (this is the latest
> > > non-mm kernel I've been able to test quickly on this box).
> > >
> > > Marc, does your touchpad work with gpm?
> >
> > What's in your relevant xorg.conf sections?
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "mouse"
> Identifier "Mouse[1]"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Name" "Logitech Optical USB Mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
> Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Identifier "Mouse[3]"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
> Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
> Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
> Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
> Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Layout[all]"
> InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
> Option "Clone" "off"
> Option "Xinerama" "off"
> Screen "Screen[0]"
> EndSection
>

Ok, so you are using Synaptics driver. Does you have evdev module loaded
and do you have /dev/input/eventX nodes created? If not that would explain
why the touchpad is not working in X.

--
Dmitry