From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070209 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Description of problem: When booting kernel-2.6.19-1.2911. kernel-2.6.19-1.2895 or kernel-2.6.20-1.2947 the synoptics touchpad is not recognized by the PS/2 autodetection routine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.19-1.2911 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot kernel-2.6.19.2911 2. 3. Actual Results: Synoptics touchpad not recognized. Expected Results: Synoptics touchpad automagicalli recognition. Additional info: I've also tried older and newer kernels. None recognizes this touchpad.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230595 ***
Created attachment 149041 [details] i8042.c patch found on a Gentoo forum