Touchpad on Dell

[William Burrows]

A-HA!  I don't think the problem is with the synaptics driver.  It's 
deeper then that.  When I initially boot up, my dmesg looks normal, but 
as soon as I try to use my touchpad, BOOM!, errors start spilling out:

psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio1
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input13
psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity

I've tried a couple of of kernel options to no avail :(  Some on the 
internets think it might be related to the network driver (wlan0 
iwl4965).  But there are no solutions that I could find.  Has anybody 
heard of a work around?  Thanks

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 18:10 -0400, William Burrows wrote:
>   
>> The touchpad is still useless.  Did I do it correctly?  Is there anything I should remove? Thanks
>>     
> This is what the single clause looks like on my DELL D810
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Synaptics"
>         Driver      "synaptics"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>         Option      "LeftEdge" "120"
>         Option      "RightEdge" "830"
>         Option      "TopEdge" "120"
>         Option      "BottomEdge" "650"
>         Option      "FingerLow" "14"
>         Option      "FingerHigh" "15"
>         Option      "MaxTapMove" "110"
>         Option      "VertScrollDelta" "20"
>         Option      "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
>         Option      "MinSpeed" "0.3"
>         Option      "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
> EndSection
>
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