Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues
Marshall Lewis
marshall at novafoundry.com
Fri May 20 16:01:55 UTC 2005
I forgot to mention.. I ended up having to recompile the kernel anyway
to fix the clock issue (clock running at double speed... that is.. 1
minute wall time would be 2 minutes system time). If anyone else is
having that issue with the compaq r4000 or the hp zv6000, do a google
search on "timerhack", and you can find a patch/hack in one of the
kernel mailing lists.
--
Marshall
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:58 -0400, Marshall Lewis wrote:
> 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
> >
>
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