Bug 672989

Summary: touchpad not detected (detected as generic mouse)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: JAlberto <ja>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description JAlberto 2011-01-26 22:54:52 UTC
Description of problem:
touchpad is detected as a generic mouse, i don't have a touchpad tab in mouse properties.
if i cat /dev/input5 and move the mouse i can see it working, even scrolling and tapping, but all that doen's work in gnome

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install F14
2. update F14
3. try configure touchpad
  
Actual results:
doens't works scroll or multitouch capabilities

Expected results:
a working touchpad

Additional info:
dell vostro 3500

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-01-27 11:32:00 UTC
Both of these capabilities are switched off per default. Wouldn't just switching them on in the Gnome's Control Panel help?

Thank you for helping to make Fedora awesome!

Comment 2 JAlberto 2011-01-27 12:17:10 UTC
I added /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi from gentoo and now it works. Maybe this fdi is missing in fedora?

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-01-27 12:55:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I added /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi from gentoo and now it works.
> Maybe this fdi is missing in fedora?

Could you attach it to this bug, please?

Thank you

Comment 4 JAlberto 2011-01-27 13:52:23 UTC
Created attachment 475607 [details]
synaptic fdi file

Comment 5 JAlberto 2011-01-27 13:53:51 UTC
i just noticed something, the behaviour is erratic, i just reboot and i lost again the touchpad (even the tab in mouse properties) after several reboots it back :/

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-01-28 01:15:15 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available), and
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 7 JAlberto 2011-01-28 16:15:53 UTC
Created attachment 475825 [details]
xorg log

Comment 8 JAlberto 2011-02-01 09:00:31 UTC
Some news.

I selected iBus in Input Method Selector (No input method was selected by default) and now it seems to works in every reboot.

It0s correct to select iBus?

Comment 9 JAlberto 2011-02-10 07:52:15 UTC
Any news on this? i lost again the touchpad after last update, but i can see it in:

root@mido ~ # lshal | grep -i touch
  info.product = 'Integrated Touchpad [Synaptics]'  (string)
  usb_device.product = 'Integrated Touchpad [Synaptics]'  (string)

but i dont have any touchpad tab in mouse properties. Tap works but not scrolling.

Comment 10 JAlberto 2011-02-16 09:54:33 UTC
I tested the same laptop model in ubuntu and touchpad works correctly.
Maybe some udev rule is getting weird?

i need to restar several times (>5) to get the touchpad recognised. It's really erratic behaviour.

TIA

Comment 11 Peter Hutterer 2012-01-16 01:26:59 UTC
If the touchpad is detected as generic mouse, this means it's lacking kernel-level support. This bug was filed for F14 which has since been EOL'd. Please update to F15 or F16 and chances are that the touchpad works now with a newer kernel.

If it doesn't, please reopen this bug (and update to the respective fedora version) but meanwhile I'll close this as WONTFIX for F14.