Thanks for the concerns, Ryan. I fixed the problem by compiling mm-sources.
Comes patched to supply a synaptics support option... It actually works. As
for my actually doing the patching myself... it never works. First time for
me that a patch I applied failed to work.
Anyways, mm-sources did the trick.
Now, to get a couple of applications to compile correctly with 2.6.0. I'd like
to have the shfs ebuild install, but fails miserably when it starts to use
the headers, etc ion 2.60. I'll just have to wait for this one to catch up I
guess.
Cheers.
On Friday 08 August 2003 09:35 pm, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> 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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