On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:02:17AM -0700, Taylor Dondich wrote: > I just installed woody on a Dell Inspirion 8100 and I've been looking > on-line for all the information I could find on activating the touchpad. > All the Inspirion resources say that it responds as a standard PS/2 mouse. > I believe I compiled the kernel with ps/2 mouse support (MOUSEPS2 or > something like that in the kernel config file); however, cat /dev/psaux > shows no device. The Dell Insiprion's use the ALPS Glidepad/Stickpointer as > the touchpad of choice. > > Does anyone know any troubleshooting steps I should take now?
Umm. None at all? I've got the 8100 too and both stick and touchpad
work out of the box with the default kernel... /dev/psaux and protocol
"PS/2" is completely correct, however I don't know what the "cat
/dev/psaux" is supposed to show besides the raw data stream from the
mouse?! Does the stick work and the touchpad doesn't? Then it seems to
be a hardware problem.
I'm attaching a gzipped version of my kernel-config to be absolutely
sure. The APIC is deactivated in it to stop the i8k from freezing when
inserting or removing the AC-plug ;-)
CU
Thimo
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