jerry: check on bugzilla.kernel.org for my bug that I submitted. Try the synaptics driver and possibly the other fix by adding no extensions to the mouse options. You can find more info in the bug that I wrote on the bugzilla kernel site.
I have gotten my touchpad to work on my Dell 8100. Regards, Ryan * Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-06 11:30]: > > 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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