Bug 158037

From the installer can you switch to tty2 and do:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

python -c "import kudzu; print kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_MOUSE, kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC,
kudzu.PROBE_ALL)"

cat /proc/bus/input/devices yeilds:

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product 0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys="isa0061/input0"
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event1
B: EV=120017
B: KEY=40000 4 2000078 3802078 f640d001 b2ffffdf ffeffffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: REL=140
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

python -c "import kudzu; print kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_MOUSE, kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC,
kudzu.PROBE_ALL)" yeilds:

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OK the touchpad isn't visible to the kernel hence we can't probe it or use it. 
Can you check in the bios or use the disable button to re-enable and retry.

There is a manual button to shut it off, which provides no effect.  I have read
varying reports that this may actually be a 2.6.11 issue.  According to other
people thave have the Synaptics TouchPad, they have stayed with 2.6.10 since 11
seems to drop support.

There are no BIOS settings to manually turn the TouchPad off or on.  I went
ahead and rebooted with the Touchpad off with the same results as above.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for your help!

-Jason

Paul -- did you get this fixed with a kudzu change?

My synaptics laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) with 2.6.11-1.1315_FC4 picks up synaptics
fine. So there must be something slightly different about your setup. 

I'll try chase down similar hardware.  Are there any BIOS options about
mouse/legacy mode at all.

There aren't any Legacy/mouse options that I can see in the BIOS.  That's what
it gets for being a Phoenix BIOS.  Award is better.  *smirk*

-Jason

Also, I am running the default kernel with the isntaller (2.6.11-1.1286_FC4). 
How would I get my hands on the newer kernel, since it sounds that might be a
possible way to resolve this?

-Jason

Running with 1319 kernel, and still no support.

I really can't replicate the synaptics issue you are having. Is the system dual
boot, or can you boot an older installer - say Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9 based) and
see if anything appears in /proc/bus/input/devices.  I am also uncertain how
this relates to the disable functionality of your laptop, so confirming the
touchpad working under linux would be a start.

Could you also try booting with psmouse.proto=imps and see if that has any
affect on touchpad and /proc/bus/input/devices.

The laptop is Fedora Core only, so no dual boot issues there.  Fedora Core 3
does not allow for keyboard use (since it doesn't detect it), so that's why I
moved right to FC4-test3.

Also, what I mean by 'disable functionality' is that if you look physically
above the TouchPad, you can see a button with a symbol representing the TouchPad
that you can press to disable it. You don't have to go through the BIOS to
disable it.

Also, the Compaq R3000 series has this same concept.  There is a 'touchpad with
a dedicated on/off button', therefore not needing BIOS settings or whatnot.

2.6.10 does not find the keyboard, so 2.6.11 is required.

Please can you attach as individual uncompressed files dmesg from 2.6.10 (setup
a script in /etc/rc.local) and 2.6.11 please.

This is sounding more and more like a kernel issue.

Could you guide me through that process please?  I'm still fairly new to scripts.

-Jason

Can you update to the latest rawhide kernel and attach the output of

dmesg

and a seperately 

find /sys/bus/serio/ -ls

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requested, we will assume the problem was not reproduceable or has been fixed in
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