ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Johan Braennlund]

Hi. I've had trouble with my ALPS touchpad on my Acer Aspire, ever
since ALPS support was merged into the kernel. I've tried various
kernels from 2.6.11-rc3 to -rc5 (including some -mm kernels) and none
of them detect the pad. After sprinkling some printk's in the mouse
drivers, it seems like psmouse_connect in psmouse-base.c is never even
called. 

On the other hand, using earlier kernels (such as 2.6.9) with the
kernel patch from Peter Osterlund's driver package works fine. In that
case, I get lines like this in syslog:

kernel: alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
kernel: alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 14
kernel: alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
kernel: alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 14
kernel: alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
kernel: ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
kernel: input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4

With the newer kernels, there's nothing ALPS-related in the log. Any
pointers on what to look for would be appreciated. My kernel config is
at http://nullinfinity.org/config-2.6.11-rc5

Thanks,

Johan



		
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Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:33:36 -0800 (PST), Johan Braennlund
<johan_brn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've had trouble with my ALPS touchpad on my Acer Aspire, ever
> since ALPS support was merged into the kernel. I've tried various
> kernels from 2.6.11-rc3 to -rc5 (including some -mm kernels) and none
> of them detect the pad. After sprinkling some printk's in the mouse
> drivers, it seems like psmouse_connect in psmouse-base.c is never even
> called.
> 
> On the other hand, using earlier kernels (such as 2.6.9) with the
> kernel patch from Peter Osterlund's driver package works fine. In that
> case, I get lines like this in syslog:
> 
> kernel: alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> kernel: alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 14
> kernel: alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> kernel: alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 14
> kernel: alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
> kernel: ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
> kernel: input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
> 
> With the newer kernels, there's nothing ALPS-related in the log. Any
> pointers on what to look for would be appreciated. My kernel config is
> at http://nullinfinity.org/config-2.6.11-rc5
> 

Hi,

Does i8042 detect presence of an AUX port (check dmesg)? If not try
booting with i8042.noacpi kernel boot option.

-- 
Dmitry

Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Johan Braennlund]

--- Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Does i8042 detect presence of an AUX port (check dmesg)? 

No.

> If not try booting with i8042.noacpi kernel boot option.

Yes, that helped - everything's working now. Thank you.

- Johan


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Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Friday 25 February 2005 17:20, Johan Braennlund wrote:
> 
> --- Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Does i8042 detect presence of an AUX port (check dmesg)? 
> 
> No.
> 
> > If not try booting with i8042.noacpi kernel boot option.
> 
> Yes, that helped - everything's working now. Thank you.
> 

Could you please send me contents of your DSDT
(cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.hex)

Thanks!

-- 
Dmitry

Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Frank Victor Fischer]

I have had the same problem and the solution worked for me as well.

Where should I put the DSDT?

Please reply to my e-mail, as I am no linux-kernel subscriber.

Victor Fischer

Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 17:55, Frank Victor Fischer wrote:
> I have had the same problem and the solution worked for me as well.
> 
> Where should I put the DSDT?
> 

Just e-mail it to me - I suspect your PS/2 port has a wierd ID assigned
to it, one that i8042 driver does not expect.

-- 
Dmitry

Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 17:55, Frank Victor Fischer wrote:
> I have had the same problem and the solution worked for me as well.
> 
> Where should I put the DSDT?
> 
> Please reply to my e-mail, as I am no linux-kernel subscriber.

Thanks for DSDT! Could you please try the follwing patch?

Andrew, if this works I'd like to see it in 2.6.11...
Vojtech, I will send you patch for PNP shortly after.
 
-- 
Dmitry


=====================================================================

Input: add more PNP IDs to i8042 driver.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>


===== drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h 1.2 vs edited =====
--- 1.2/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h	2004-10-19 05:58:22 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h	2005-02-27 01:27:58 -05:00
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 
 static struct acpi_driver i8042_acpi_aux_driver = {
 	.name		= "i8042",
-	.ids		= "PNP0F13,SYN0801",
+	.ids		= "PNP0F03,PNP0F0B,PNP0F0E,PNP0F12,PNP0F13,SYN0801",
 	.ops		= {
 		.add		= i8042_acpi_aux_add,
 	},

Re: ALPS touchpad not seen by 2.6.11 kernels

[Johan Braennlund]

After applying your patch, I can confirm that the kernel detects the
touchpad without the i8042.noacpi option. Thanks!

- Johan



		
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