Re: 2.6.0-test1: Synaptics driver makes touchpad unusable

From: Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 10:04:38 EST


Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> writes:

> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 23:33, Peter Osterlund shaped the electrons to shout:
> > Does it help to make the timeout even longer? (15 seconds for example)
> > Does it help to disable the reset sequence altogether, like this?
> >
> > diff -u -r -N linux-2.6.0-test1/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
> > linux-tmp/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c ---
> > linux-2.6.0-test1/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c Sat Jul 12 00:17:19 2003
> > +++ linux-tmp/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c Tue Jul 15 23:31:01 2003 @@
> > -81,6 +81,8 @@
> > {
> > unsigned char r[2];
> >
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > if (psmouse_command(psmouse, r, PSMOUSE_CMD_RESET_BAT))
> > return -1;
> > if (r[0] == 0xAA && r[1] == 0x00)
>
>
> No, it didn't help. With the above patch, the x server gives the following
> errors:
> Query no Synaptics: 0000C8
> (EE) TouchPad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
> (EE) TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.

Looks like the wrong protocol is specified in the X driver
configuration. You must set "Device" to "/dev/input/eventX" and
"Protocol" to "event", where X is probably 0 in your case.

-- 
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340
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