Re: Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 13:43:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:32:27PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 7/13/05, Thomas Sailer <sailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Vojtech,
> >
> > I've got a problem with my Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi Laptop: vanilla 2.6
> > does not detect the synaptics touchpad.
> >
> > The problem lies within psmouse_probe: after the PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID
> > command, param[0] contains 0xfa, and not one of the expected values. If
> > I just ignore this and continue, the synaptics pad is detected and
> > everything works ok.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you please provide us with debug dmesg - just boot with
> i8042.debug on kernel command line.

Also try the usual options ("i8042.nomux=1" and "usb-handoff"). One or
both may make the problem disappear.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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