From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: I have a Compaq R3000Z notebook with an ALPS Touchpad mouse which is not recognized by the FC3 kernel. I've tried several versions including the latest and none will recognize the mouse. After a lot of research I figured out that by recompiling the kernel with the evdev and psmouse loadable modules rather than built-ins. The process I use to get it working is documented here: http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/compaqr3000z-fc3.php This just gets it recognized as a standard PS/2 mouse, I'm still lacking the full ALPS Touchpad functionality. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot kernel 2. Attempt to use mouse either in text mode or X 3. Actual Results: Cursor never moves. Expected Results: Cursor should move when using the ALPS touchpad built into this laptop. Additional info: With the evdev and psmouse modules compiled as loadable modules the mouse gets recognized as follows: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio4 This mouse is NOT recognized by any FC3 kernels.
You need to rebuild the kernel with the alps.patch supplied with the synaptics package.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
I think this patch, or something equivalent, is in 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 now.