Re: Cannot get PS/2 touchpad to work on old laptop

In article <fpff29$l08$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@xxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Cox wrote:
I have one small problem with a Debian install on with a very old laptop
(P266, 64MB, 800x600) which is badged as a 'Lifetec' but is really a
Twinhead Slimnote 9TE. It has a touchpad, or 'pointing device', as the
manufacturer calls it, which the spec says is a "TwinTouch II". It
originally ran Windows 98 perfectly acceptably.

<snip>
So far, all I have found which looks useful are the following two lines
in dmesg:

PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

lsmod showed no obvious mouse module present, so I have done modprobe
psmouse and then tried again with gpm, but without success.

I would be grateful for any suggestions regarding what to try next
please.

Many TIA


What is the content of the file /proc/bus/input/devices? Try

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

and look for mouse or touchpad.

Hi Jörg-Volker and thanks for the suggestion. The only devices listed
are the keyboard and the PC speaker.

(As a matter of interest, I then tried plugging in a USB mouse. This was
in console mode with gpm running. gpm immediately started working and
re-checking /proc/bus/input/devices showed the USB mouse added to the
list of devices).

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.


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