synaptics / alps touchpad

From: Jonathan Berry (berryja_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Hi all,

    Does the latest FC3 kernel (770_FC3) have the necessary patches to
    work with a synaptics touchpad? That is, does anyone have synaptics
    working with the stock FC3 kernel (without re-compiling or anything
    like that)?
    A seperate question, does anyone know when the 2.6.11 kernel in
    testing will be released? I've heard reports that at least vanilla
    2.6.11 kernels have the necessary patches to get synaptics working.
    My laptop (Compaq R3000Z) has a synaptics touchpad, but a bug in the
    BIOS prevents it from being properly recognized. If psmouse is built
    as a module (and not built in as in the default config) I can get it
    working with "rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse" but it only works as
    a normal mouse (no special synaptics functions). With a default
    kernel, I can also get it to work by rubbing the touchpad enough :).
    Both operations seem to reset something in the touchpad that then
    allow it to be recognized. There is a BIOS upgrade available which
    fixes this, but I am reluctant to apply it since almost everything
    works. I have been trying to see if I could get it to work as a
    synaptics touchpad without the BIOS upgrade (it's a long shot, but
    worth a try), so I'm trying to figure out what all I need to do to get
    it working.
    One last question. Does anyone know if there is a way to get FC3 to
    try to redect the mouse? Such a command would be much more
    convienient than rubbing the pad until it works :).

    Thanks,
    Jonathan 

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