Re: Problem with Vaio touchpad

[Thadeu Penna <tjpp@if.uff.br>]

I can confirm the same weird behavior on HP Pavillion zx5820 here.
I went back to sarge 2.6.8 to get it working fine again. It is a pity 
because I had to recompile alsa since 2.6.8 does not get along with my 
atiixp  soundcard...

Curt Howland wrote:
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> Hi. Up-To-Date Sid on a Vaio PCG-GRT170.
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> I finally tracked down the problem I've had trying to go from kernel 
> 2.6.10 to 2.6.11, which I noticed recently became the "official" 
> latest Debian kernel. Or rather, 2.6.10 is showing up as obsolete 
> today.
>
> Anyway, when the "psmouse" module loads in 2.6.10, I get the following 
> message:
> - -----------
> ~# modprobe psmouse
> input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> - -----------
>
> and everything works just fine. Smooth fine position control, 3-button 
> emulation, copy/paste, strike the touchpad surface and it "clicks" 
> button 1, stuff like that.
>
> However, under 2.6.11, the following message comes up:
> - -----------
> ~# modprobe psmouse
> ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
>   Disabling hardware tapping
> input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> - -----------
>
> Fine movement is no longer smooth, distance is inconsistent, 
> copy/paste is flaky to say the least, and worst of all there is no 
> "click" when I hit the touchpad with my finger.
>
> Is there a way to disable checking, to force "PS/2 Generic"-ness upon 
> the module? Sometimes hardware detection can go too far, it seems.
>
> I'm not going to open a trouble ticket on the module until it's 
> obvious there is no way around the detection routine, or I can 
> communicate the action and fix to the kernel packagers.
>
> Curt-


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