I have recently brought a "Vaio C1S/W Core 2 Duo T5500" and installed the latest copy of slackware.

All is working well except i cannot get the touchpad to respond... At all!

I have tried installing the synaptics touchpad package... But i may have missed something (total noob here).

lspci says

bash-3.1# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Expr
ess Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Exp
ress Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express In
tegrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Aud
io Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (r
ev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (r
ev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (r
ev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (r
ev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev
02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev
02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Control ler (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (re v 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (re v 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA S torage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Et hernet Controller (rev 13)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Conne ction (rev 02)
0a:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:03.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

I am a total linux noob... So please be gentle!

and my xorg.log can be downloaded from:
http://elachys.com/files/xorg.log
Sorry for double posting. But you can't post links on your first go! :P

Hello,

Which kernel for slackware are you using, 2.4 or 2.6?

I haven't used 2.4 in a long time, so I think it's 'hotplug' that creates the /dev entries, but 2.6 uses 'udev' to create them for you. See if hotplug is running at boot time.

Sam

Thanks for the reply.
Yes i'm using 2.6

Hotplug is installed. However, I have no idea how to tell if it's running or not!

First, lets see if the distro is recognizing the touchpad.

Go to a console, and type the command

This tells the 'devices' file to display its contents. The file lists what devices are currently recognized on the computer. It includes your keyboard, any mice you have, speakers, etc.

Check if your Synaptics is listed. If it is, and it should be, then make a note of what devices are listed under its 'Handlers' section.

Also, if you could, post your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file please.

Sam

thanks for the reply.


bash-3.1# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7



my xorg.conf file can be downloaded from
http://elachys.com/files/xorg.conf

Is that all your 'devices' file lists?

You may not be booting up with the 'psmouse' module loaded. check the output of 'lsmod'. It will show you all loaded modules (drivers). If 'psmouse' is not listed as one of them, try starting it with
Now have a look at your 'devices' file again with the cat command.

In your xorg.conf file, you shouldn't have 'Load synaptics' in your module list. It's already specified in the driver section below.

Sam

it seems i'm loading up with no modules at all!
not good!


and lsmod is empty!
Did i do something wrong during the install??

You must have done something wrong during the install, or when you changed from the default 2.4 kernel to the 2.6. I don't know the slackware install procedure though. Try to re-install a kernel from the slackware disk, using a package manager.

Sam