Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 152290
Presario R3000 touchpad needs kernel patch
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:18:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: See URL for description and patch. Note that this affects ALL Compaq Presario R3000-series units, not just the particular AMD64 unit described on that page. I'm not sure at all that the patch provided above is the correct way to go... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. i8042 is detected in MUX mode 3. ALPS touchpad is not detected 4. Sometimes a while later it will suddenly start working, along with a kernel message about "detected ImPS/2 on i8042.mux2" or something along those lines (will update bug when it happens again) Actual Results: ALPS touchpad does not get detected properly through i8042 MUX on Presario R3000 laptops. Expected Results: Should be detected at least as plain ImPS/2 device... Additional info: adding i8042.nomux to boot arguments appears to fix problem There are multiple pages (googleable, that's how I found them) that describe R3000 touchpad problems. I _believe_ there's something wrong with the initial state of the 8042 mux, or the initial state of the touchpad. I'd say about 75% of the time that the touchpad starts working spontaneously, it's after I've attached a USB mouse and started X.
More testing, confirmed with some other OSes that understand muxing... The i8042 is configured into mux mode by the bios - which is kinda stupid since there isn't even an external ps/2 port on these notebooks. On both the kbd and mouse ports, the built-in (only!) devices are physically wired to the last mux port instead of the first. (Possibly a hardware design error?) As far as I can tell, the problem is that the 8042 enumeration code at boot time can't properly talk to the 8042 on this motherboard. In linux-2.6.12.1/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c, line 578, we have a printk(KERN_INFO,... which would give a bit of useful info during boot - if I knew how to see INFO level messages during the boot sequence. There's the "earlyprintk=vga" parameter, but that doesn't _seem_ to do the trick. Suggestions on how to capture KERN_INFO messages during boot?
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.
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