Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

fre, 20.05.2005 kl. 05.57 skrev David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud):
> Unfortunately, I'm headed out of town on Friday so this is a "seagull 
> comment" (fly in, crap all over the place, then leave) but I just 
> managed to get my Synaptics Touchpad working on an HP Pavilion zv6015 
> with test 3 x86_64.  The *really dumb* trick turned out to be to 
> recompile the kernel with psmouse as a module.  Doing a simple "modprobe 
> -r psmouse" followed by a "modprobe psmouse" is sufficient to find the 
> Synaptics touchpad.  It then appears to work in both text (gpm) and 
> X-windows.
Hmm... Could this touchpad trick have anything to do with this bug?:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156418