Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Hardware: Toshiba Satellite 5200-903
Fresh installation of Feisty with herd4, touchpad only works as normal mouse.
Xorg.0.log:
(EE) Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Touchpad"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
#cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=06cb Product=0003 Version=0100
N: Name="Synaptics Inc. Synaptics cPad"
P: Phys=usb-0000:02:06.0-3/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2 ts1
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
but there is also a
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 ts0
don't know, where it comes from
here is the important snippet from the xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
btw, there was no problem with Kubuntu 6.10 and the touchpad.
#laptop-detect && echo yes shows yes
(Could be the a similar bug as https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/laptop-detect/+bug/89113)
** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Synaptics touchpad isnt detected
https://launchpad.net/bugs/89517
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