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....
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=106020782729526&w=2
I just posted on this earlier.
-Chris I
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