I have a Gateway MX6450 with Fedora 2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.i686

The keyboard works and I have full functionality otherwise, but it seems like linux doesn't redetect the trackpad when the laptop is taken out of sleep mode. I can see the mouse arrow but it's frozen and I can't do anything with my trackpad

What would be the first thing I check for? Any advice.

Run the following in a terminal:

and post the result here.

Here is the result from the command:

/lib/modules/2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/idmouse.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/vsxxxaa.ko

Okay, try to unload and load the appletouch thingie:

First unload

then load it again

Try this when your trackpad is broken, and let me know if it helps or not.

Strangely enough it tells me:

FATAL: Module appletouch.ko not found

I drilled down to the root of that directory to see if the driver file was actually there and it was. Root had full permissions to the file. I don't know why appletouch.ko could not be found when It was sitting right there. I get the same output when I tried to remove any of the other files in the directory.

I sudo'd the command AND I even su'd into root for good measure.

The ACLs were as follows:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-22 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2009-11-22 00:00 ..
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 15532 2009-11-04 18:12 appletouch.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13700 2009-11-04 18:12 bcm5974.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10364 2009-11-04 18:12 sermouse.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10568 2009-11-04 18:12 vsxxxaa.ko

That is strange indeed. Did you get this error when loading or unloading?

If it was with the unloading command, you should just try the load command instead.

Otherwise I have really no clue what's going on, I've unloaded and loaded appletouch a lot of times on my own computer without any problem. I hope someone else will be able to help you (start a new thread about it if nothing happens).

Thanks anyway for your help.

I'm curious now b/c I'm looking through the directory folders which shows as follows when I do an ls on the input folder:

gameport input-polldev.ko joydev.ko joystick lirc misc mouse serio tablet touchscreen


all of which seem to be physical devices. I'm wondering if the mouse drivers are referring to a physical mouse and not the trackpad that controls the mouse movements on a laptop.

I'll plug in a physical mouse and see what happens.

Interesting, which folder is this that you're listing? Sounds like a useful thing to know

On my computer the appletouch module seems to be related to the trackpad, unloading it disables the trackpad and loading it enables the trackpad again. Not sure this was related to what you were saying though.

I have an Acer Aspire A110 with FC11. I found that my mouse does the same thing, but only when I do not have my Evermore Integrate Office or Firefox etc running. It seems there has to be an application active. Also found that in some cases you have to tap a key first, then it may be necessary to do a another key tap after a second or two for it to wake up. With the desktop and task bar the only things active it is dead.

I'm not entirely convinced it to be related to the device drivers. Looks like it could be some handshake inside Fedora, but I know too little yet.