Bug 172797 - synaptics touchpad detected but nonfunctional on acer laptop
Summary: synaptics touchpad detected but nonfunctional on acer laptop
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: synaptics
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Peter Hutterer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-09 21:06 UTC by Zack Cerza
Modified: 2012-06-20 13:32 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 13:32:39 UTC
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/proc/bus/input/devices (458 bytes, text/plain)
2005-11-10 18:00 UTC, Zack Cerza 		no flags Details
xorg.conf (2.75 KB, text/plain)
2005-11-10 21:07 UTC, Zack Cerza 		no flags Details
grepping dmesg for serio and synaptics (218 bytes, text/plain)
2005-11-10 21:07 UTC, Zack Cerza 		no flags Details
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Description Zack Cerza 2005-11-09 21:06:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
On a fresh RHEL4U2 install on an Acer Aspire 3000, the Synaptics touchpad is
detected but nonfunctional.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
synaptics-0.13.5-5
Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2005-11-09 21:10:48 UTC 
Please attach the output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Comment 2 Zack Cerza 2005-11-10 18:00:03 UTC 
Created attachment 120893 [details]
/proc/bus/input/devices

Here's the contents of /proc/bus/input/devices
Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2005-11-10 18:56:52 UTC 
That seems to be in order - please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf and look in dmesg
for any obvious input/serio related messages.
Comment 4 Zack Cerza 2005-11-10 21:07:00 UTC 
Created attachment 120905 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 5 Zack Cerza 2005-11-10 21:07:54 UTC 
Created attachment 120906 [details]
grepping dmesg for serio and synaptics
Comment 6 Paul Nasrat 2005-11-11 14:22:53 UTC 
Please can you back up the xorg.conf and run system-config-display --reconfig
and attach the generated configuration.
Comment 8 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 13:32:39 UTC 
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.
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