Gpilotd and synaptics touchpad kernel questions

[Jim Cornette]

lwj wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 00:15, Mauri Sahlberg wrote:
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>>Hello list,
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>>I had working and still have, if I boot to Knoppix or to XP, Synaptics
>>touchpad but I have not managed to get it work under kernel 2.6.5
>>Neither Mandrake 10 or FC 2 recognized it's existence during
>>installation nor does recompilation of kernel with CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
>>help. The pad remains undetected and non functional. Of course synpatics
>>driver does not load as it is unable to detect the pad 
>>(CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is a default for FC-kernel). Do you think that
>>downloading 2.6.6 kernel source and compiling it would help to get it
>>work? It takes foreever to compile kernel and the space is very tight. 
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>You need to install a driver to get the Synaptics touchpad to work. A
>link to one or more sites is available in the list archives. I don't
>remember the link.
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For a few laptop types with the synaptics touchpad, adding something 
like the below to the kernel allows the mouse to work. (Scrolling and tap).
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.406 ro root=LABEL=/  acpi=on psmouse.proto=imps

I believe that if psaux is compiled into the kernel, you would have to 
edit the xorg.conf to "/dev/psaux" instead of "/dev/input/mice". This is 
a guess.

I dropped down to the 2.4 kernel because with the 2.6.x kernel, there 
are elevated temperatures to 80 degrees C. My laptop runs at around 45 C 
with the 2.4 kernel version. Synaptics works great though.

Good luck getting the synaptics running.

Jim