synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

[Norbert Preining]

Hello Peter, hi Andrew!

Since 2.6.13-rc2-mm1 my X does not find my synaptics touchpad driver.

With kernel 2.6.13-rc2-mm2 (same with rc2-mm1) I get from the kernel:

Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9d48b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4006
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

and Xorg.0.log gives:

(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.2
touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
touchpad The evdev kernel module seems to be missing
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "touchpad"

(but evdev is definitely loaded!)


WIth 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 I get:

Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9d48b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4006
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

and Xorg.0.log gives:

(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.2
(--) touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event1
(--) touchpad touchpad found

Any idea what could be the reason for this?

Best wishes

Norbert

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Re: synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

[Peter Osterlund]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> Hello Peter, hi Andrew!
> 
> Since 2.6.13-rc2-mm1 my X does not find my synaptics touchpad driver.
> 
> With kernel 2.6.13-rc2-mm2 (same with rc2-mm1) I get from the kernel:
> 
> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9d48b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4006
> input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> 
> and Xorg.0.log gives:
> 
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.2
> touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
> touchpad The evdev kernel module seems to be missing

What's the output from "cat /proc/bus/input/devices"?

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Re: synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

[Norbert Preining]

On Die, 12 Jul 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> What's the output from "cat /proc/bus/input/devices"?

good (rc1-mm1)
$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
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 f2000000 3802078 f870f401 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff ffffffff 
B: MSC=10 
B: LED=7 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: EV=b 
B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: ABS=11000003 

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name=""
P: Phys=
H: Handlers=kbd event2 
B: EV=3 
B: KEY=ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 

bad (rc2-mm2)
$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
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 f2000000 3802078 f870f401 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff ffffffff 
B: MSC=10 
B: LED=7 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: EV=b 
B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: ABS=11000003 

Best wishes

Norbert

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Re: synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

[Peter Osterlund]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> On Die, 12 Jul 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > What's the output from "cat /proc/bus/input/devices"?
> 
> bad (rc2-mm2)
> $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices 

> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
> N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
> B: EV=b 
> B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
> B: ABS=11000003 

Looks correct. My guess is that something is wrong with your device
nodes. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/input/event*"?

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Re: synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

[Norbert Preining]

On Mit, 13 Jul 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Looks correct. My guess is that something is wrong with your device
> nodes. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/input/event*"?

Bingo. THere was no event0 and event1, although the evdev module was
loaded!

I had to unload evdev and reload it again to get the event devices.

Seems to be either a bug in evdev or in udev.

Sorry for the noise. Whom should I ask now?

Best wishes

Norbert

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