From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Fresh FC2 install on a Sony PGC-Z1XSP which comes with an Alps touchpad. If I boot without a USB mouse attached the touchpad and keyboard are both detected, kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 But if I boot with a USB mouse attached then the touchpad isn't detected (only the last two of the above lines appear in /var/log/messages) and nothing I can think of will bring it to life. OTOH, attaching the USB mouse _after_ boot works just fine: X responds to both the touchpad and the mouse via /dev/input/mice. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach USB mouse to laptop with Alps touchpad 2. Boot Actual Results: Only USB mouse is detected on boot Expected Results: Both touchpad and USB mouse detected Additional info:
I'm *guessing* your bios turns the touchpad off at boot if a USB mouse is detected. Are there any options in your BIOS about this?
No there aren't. Is there any other information I can give you?
/proc/bus/input/devices doesn't list the touchpad, presumably, if you boot with a USB mouse? Does fiddling with psmouse.proto=<bare|imps|exps> on the kernel command line help at all?
Created attachment 100604 [details] /dev/input/devices with and without USB mouse attached on boot
/proc/bus/input/devices with and without USB mouse attached. The detection of the jog dial in the without case seems a bit stranged because this machine doesn't have a jog dial. Fiddling with psmouse.proto doesn't help.
Assigning to kernel... if it's not showing up there, not much kudzu can do. Does this work with earlier releases?
It's a new machine and hasn't had any earlier releases on it.
Please try the patch mentioned in the following link or, alternatively, try loading all your USB stuff before loading psmouse module. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108213030732425&w=2
psmouse is built in...
Thanks for that link ... unfortunately I'm not going to have time to build a custom kernel for a week or so. FWIW, the earlier thread here, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107511983400003&r=1&w=2 appears to describe my problem exactly, including the Sony BIOS limitations. Given that psmouse is non-modular in the stock FC2 kernel I can't try the workaround of playing with module load order that's mentioned there.
Just like to report that this problem appears to be fixed with test kernel 2.6.6-1.424.
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