On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:23:11AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > On those same kernels however: > > > > > > > > Booting with "i8042.nomux": > > > > > > > > > > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > > > > > input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 > > > > > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > > > > > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 > > > > > > An i8042 module option did the trick. No new PCI quirk handling > > > was necessary.... > > > > Yes, but you then don't have the multiplexing, > > Do I need it though?
Yes, if you want to connect a mouse in addition to the touchpad and use both in their native modes (or just the wheel on the mouse) you need it. > > and the Synaptics device > > still isn't detected properly - the USB Legacy stuff is still getting in > > the way. > > Actually it's never detected the touchpad, even with SuSE 9.1; > in fact I'm just assuming it's Synaptics (do other vendors make > touchpads any more?). Another reason I don't think the USB > legacy stuff is the main issue (given SuSE has that patch). There's ALPS at least, with a smaller market share, but still common. > Potentially also of interest: This machine (Compaq R3140) has > a button that disables the touchpad. Very handy to avoid > palmswipe popping up several windows (sigh). The Linux Synaptics driver has built in palm detection so if you make that work, you don't need the button if your pad supports it. > But the odd > thing is that typing isn't exactly reliable unless I've disabled > the touchpad ... the keyboard logic seems to queue up some > characters until the touchpad is disabled, at which point > pending characters appear in Konsole. Weird. Can you get an i8042 debug trace of this? -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
