From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: The default kernel of FC3 has psmouse compiled in. It does not detect the Laptop's touchpad. USB mouse works. If the psmouse is compiled and loaded as a module later in the boot process it recognizes the touchpad and it functions as a PS/2 mouse properly. Machine is a X86_64 Compaq laptop R3240US. Bug #139376 has details on cpuinfo, interrupts and loaded modules. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the default kernel. 2. Laptop touchpad is not functional Actual Results: Laptop touchpad is not functional Expected Results: Touchpad should function normally as it does when psmouse is loaded as a module. Additional info:
I am experiencing the same problem. I have to recompile psmouse as a module to get it to work.
Update - With psmouse as a module, the mouse started working after I did an BIOS upgrade to F.33 for the R3240 Compaq Laptop.