Syanptics touchpad not working after recompile of kernel
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Syanptics touchpad not working after recompile of kernel
I recently recompiled my kernel, and my synaptics touchap stopped working. I'm using debian sarge. I have both the driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html and *.deb package of the synaptics driver. Any ideas? I'll have to get my XF86Config-4 posted in a little while, I have to boot into linux to get it. Thanks in advance
EDIT: I'm sorry I wan't clear, and through my unclarity I was misleading, my touchpad works. But what I'm trying to do is get tapping a scrolling working. Sorry again. I know I know
Last edited by microsoft/linux; 02-10-2005 at 05:45 PM.
Originally posted by microsoft/linux I don't think I have that config file. Any other ideas? not to blow you off though Chinaman
What did you do with your original config file?
Did you rm it? If not, it's still in your system,
you just might not know where to look for it.
I'm using Slackware, and Debian does some
things in a peculiar way, so your config files
may not be in the same place. Here they are ->
And of course, you should be able to browse the CD
you used to install Debian with the original kernel and
check the config file from there...
Another idea is to check your old XF86Config-4 file
against your new one. I think that touchpad is basically
just a PS/2 mouse configuration...except maybe for it's
extra functions...
Originally posted by microsoft/linux does anyone know? I could really use it. Thanks in advance.
You said you got a driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
Did you read that entire file and check
everything that is says to check? I don't
think anyone could give you much more
thorough help and directions than that...
Please also tells us the make and model
of your laptop, and post the output of
# lspci (as root)
$ lsmod (as user)
If you go back into your config and add support for evdev as a module, then run (as root) make, then make modules_install, that'll probably fix it. It will happen pretty fast because only the changes in the config are re compiled. In this case, it should just compile the new module. Then, when you run make modules_install, it should put everything back in the right places and you should be set - no need to copy the new kernel image to /boot or anything (it shouldn't have changed).
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