Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!
On September 27, 2004 03:24 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Until recently, my Dell Latitude L400 touchpad was being happily detected
> by my Linux kernel (2.6.7) at bootup, and was working fine in X, but then
> mysteriously dissapeared? I suspect a blundering apt-get install of udev
> which appeared to erase /dev/fd0. However, I was able to recreate /dev/fd0
> by re-booting with the floppy drive attached, (after apt-get purging udev),
But isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? If you don't have your
floppy drive inserted, you hardly need to have a /dev/fd0.
> but re-booting without my USB mouse attached has not revived my touchpad
> :-(
Did you always have to do that? I do. I can only attach my USB mouse (on an
Inspiron 2500 w/ 2.6.7) _after_ I get the Synaptics pad recognized. I'm
sure that's something to do with the ordering of the loading of various
modules, because I can get X to start up if I very carefully remove all the
modules, then modprobe psmouse, then start X, then connect the USB mouse.
I wonder it it would help to add mousedev to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and
modprobe it later...
w/ 2.4.27 I can't use the USB mouse at all.
>
> Attached is a relatively short diff of my last touchpad-successful boot
> compared with the following unsuccessful one. As can be seen from the
> diff, it was being recognised as a "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on
> isa0060/serio1". Since then it hasn't been recognised once!
>
modprobe psmouse
(which will also insert hid and evdev, maybe others)
--
derek
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