Touchpad on Dell

[Steve Forsythe]

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William Burrows wrote:
> 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
> 
> [snip]

This looks very similar to the symptoms that I saw with a Dell XPS 1530.
You don't mention which kernel options you tried -- i8042.nomux=1 worked
for me.

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