Touchpad on Dell
William Burrows
wburrows at redhat.com
Mon May 26 15:52:34 UTC 2008
OMG, Steve you are a saint!!!!!! I am using a m1530 and all the basic
kernel parameters failed. That strange yet beautiful option worked like
a charm.
Steve Forsythe wrote:
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> William Burrows wrote:
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>> 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]
>>
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> 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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