Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues

[Marshall Lewis]

Somewhere (I can't remember where, and couldn't find it again when
googling) I found a way to do it without recompiling.  I believe the
solution was to issue a "reset" command to the serio device...
something like

echo -n "reset" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl

but.. I'm not sure if "reset" was the right command.. but I think drvctl
was the right place to send the command.

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:37 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:57:34PM -0600, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote:
> > ... 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.
> 
> I have no way to test that but in the case like the above I would
> try to boot with 'psmouse.proto=imps' or  'psmouse.proto=bare' (or
> even dig through sources for other possible values of this option).
> It is quite possible that this would help without a kernel
> recompilation.
> 
>    Michal
>