From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Anaconda does not detect the Touchpad. I need to manually select it from the Mouse options list. Even with the option selected, the driver does not load, and I am unable to use the Touchpad. Note: The Compaq R4000 series has an option to manually disable the TouchPad throguh pressing a button on top of it. This may be teh cause of the issue also. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run anaconda in graphical node with 'linux nofb' 2. The system will not detect a mouse, adn ask for specifics. 3. Select Synaptic Touchpad, and continue install. Actual Results: No Synaptic touchpad support. Expected Results: Full support should have been implemented. Additional info:
From the installer can you switch to tty2 and do: cat /proc/bus/input/devices python -c "import kudzu; print kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_MOUSE, kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC, kudzu.PROBE_ALL)"
cat /proc/bus/input/devices yeilds: I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product 0001 Version=0100 N: Name="PC Speaker" P: Phys="isa0061/input0" H: Handlers=kbd event0 B: EV=40001 B: SND=6 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version ab41 N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard" P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0 H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event1 B: EV=120017 B: KEY=40000 4 2000078 3802078 f640d001 b2ffffdf ffeffffff ffffffff fffffffe B: REL=140 B: MSC=10 B: LED=7 python -c "import kudzu; print kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_MOUSE, kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC, kudzu.PROBE_ALL)" yeilds: []
OK the touchpad isn't visible to the kernel hence we can't probe it or use it. Can you check in the bios or use the disable button to re-enable and retry.
There is a manual button to shut it off, which provides no effect. I have read varying reports that this may actually be a 2.6.11 issue. According to other people thave have the Synaptics TouchPad, they have stayed with 2.6.10 since 11 seems to drop support. There are no BIOS settings to manually turn the TouchPad off or on. I went ahead and rebooted with the Touchpad off with the same results as above. Any other ideas? Thanks for your help! -Jason
Paul -- did you get this fixed with a kudzu change?
My synaptics laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) with 2.6.11-1.1315_FC4 picks up synaptics fine. So there must be something slightly different about your setup. I'll try chase down similar hardware. Are there any BIOS options about mouse/legacy mode at all.
There aren't any Legacy/mouse options that I can see in the BIOS. That's what it gets for being a Phoenix BIOS. Award is better. *smirk* -Jason
Also, I am running the default kernel with the isntaller (2.6.11-1.1286_FC4). How would I get my hands on the newer kernel, since it sounds that might be a possible way to resolve this? -Jason
Running with 1319 kernel, and still no support.
I really can't replicate the synaptics issue you are having. Is the system dual boot, or can you boot an older installer - say Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9 based) and see if anything appears in /proc/bus/input/devices. I am also uncertain how this relates to the disable functionality of your laptop, so confirming the touchpad working under linux would be a start. Could you also try booting with psmouse.proto=imps and see if that has any affect on touchpad and /proc/bus/input/devices.
The laptop is Fedora Core only, so no dual boot issues there. Fedora Core 3 does not allow for keyboard use (since it doesn't detect it), so that's why I moved right to FC4-test3. Also, what I mean by 'disable functionality' is that if you look physically above the TouchPad, you can see a button with a symbol representing the TouchPad that you can press to disable it. You don't have to go through the BIOS to disable it. Also, the Compaq R3000 series has this same concept. There is a 'touchpad with a dedicated on/off button', therefore not needing BIOS settings or whatnot. 2.6.10 does not find the keyboard, so 2.6.11 is required.
Please can you attach as individual uncompressed files dmesg from 2.6.10 (setup a script in /etc/rc.local) and 2.6.11 please. This is sounding more and more like a kernel issue.
Could you guide me through that process please? I'm still fairly new to scripts. -Jason
Can you update to the latest rawhide kernel and attach the output of dmesg and a seperately find /sys/bus/serio/ -ls
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