2.6.0 killed my touchpad...

[Jerry McBride]

I tought I'd chime in here to touch base with anyone having problems with the 
new 2.6.0 test kernel and touchpads in laptops.

I admin an odd lot of about 80 laptops at work and I've been looking into 
testing the 2.6.0 kernel on some of the various brands we run. Oddly enough, 
I've had excellent results in most cases and absolute failure in one common 
hardware area... the touchpad.

I've spent a couple of hours today, compiling the 2.6.0-t2 kernel on a few of 
the failed test machines and trying some of the fixes I've seen posted on the 
internet. I've even compiled XF86 4.30 in one extreme case. I've come to the 
conclusion that on these particular laptops, the kernel is hopelessly broken 
in reguards to internal touchpads. It boils down to this... If the touchpad 
works, you're good... it it's not detected early on then it will never work. 
period. No amount of patching, compiling or appending will bring 
functionality to the dead pad.

Of the laptops I've tested... Touchpads that work; All toshibas, sony and 
dell. Touchpads that fail; Most Compaq's, all Compaq 12xx series and my old 
leo.

I can't wait till T3 comes out...  I dearly, dearly LOVE the ease of setting 
up cryptoloop with the new kernel....

 

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