Bug 230595

Summary: HP500 notebook synoptics touchpad
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexandru Ciobanu <iscandr>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6CC: dtor, wtogami
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-05-31 14:20:06 UTC Type: ---
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i8042.c patch none

Description Alexandru Ciobanu 2007-03-01 18:17:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Synoptics touchpad is not recognized.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6, 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6, 2.6.20-1.2947.fc7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot any of these kernels.

  
Actual results:
Synoptics touchpad not recognized.

Expected results:
Synoptics touchpad automagically recognition.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Alexandru Ciobanu 2007-03-01 18:17:08 UTC 
Created attachment 149032 [details]
i8042.c patch
Comment 2 Will Woods 2007-03-01 18:50:11 UTC 
*** Bug 230603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alexandru Ciobanu 2007-03-01 19:02:49 UTC 
Touchpad is not automagically recognized on HP500 notebook.
Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2007-03-30 22:15:59 UTC 
A test kernel is at http://people.redhat.com/cebbert

Please test and report your results.
Comment 5 Alexandru Ciobanu 2007-03-30 23:38:24 UTC 
Tested kernel-2.6.20-1.2938.fc6.i686.rpm.
The issue prevails.
Comment 6 Dmitry Torokhov 2007-05-30 14:05:59 UTC 
I think the following commit will fix the issue:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-
2.6.git;a=commit;h=d2ada5597d33a9108acb2caf912f85cbc9caab1e
Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2007-05-30 18:06:46 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> I think the following commit will fix the issue:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-
> 2.6.git;a=commit;h=d2ada5597d33a9108acb2caf912f85cbc9caab1e

Patch is in kernel 1.2952, in testing, should be released today.
Comment 8 Alexandru Ciobanu 2007-05-31 13:12:33 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > I think the following commit will fix the issue:
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-
> > 2.6.git;a=commit;h=d2ada5597d33a9108acb2caf912f85cbc9caab1e
> 
> Patch is in kernel 1.2952, in testing, should be released today.

Dmitry's commit solved the issue. Both vanilla and 1.2952 automagically
recognize the touchpad.