2.6.0 killed my touchpad...

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:21:18 -0400
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 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.

The synaptic touchpads (I mentioned them in my article).  They work, but
require an experimental (read: it usually doesn't work) patched X.  Good
luck.

> 
> 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....

won't fix the touchpad issue because (AFAICT) it's not a kernel problem.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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