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Old 09-20-2008, 03:15 PM   #1
leedude
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Touchpad not responding in latest kernel on Fedora 9


hi, in the latest kernel Xorg gives an error saying:
"cant get event device" in reference to my touch pad, and the pad doesn't work.

i have to boot into the older kernel in order to use the mouse, which im sure is not a good thing.


i am also getting a weird message from packagekit whenever i log in: "Additional firmware required".
it appears in a box. when i click "install firmware", the packagekit icon appears in the notification area for about 1.5 seconds, and then disappears, giving an error message "failed to find package".

i cannot find out what hardware the "required" firmware is for. it seems unlikely that a device such as a touchpad would have loadable firmware. all other hardware is working.


on top of that, bzflag gives an odd message when starting:
Quote:
bzflag: ../common/dri_bufmgr_fake.c:982: dri_fake_emit_reloc: Assertion `target_fake->is_static || target_fake->size_accounted' failed.
and World of warcraft still keeps crashing randomly. is there a way i can use winedebug to investigate the problem?

my xorg.conf:
Code:
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Last edited by leedude; 09-20-2008 at 03:33 PM. Reason: changed code to quote tags
 
Old 09-21-2008, 11:49 AM   #2
leedude
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ok, i managed to get a click of the packagekit message before it disappeared, and i think it says:
/lib/firmware/intel_ucode

why would i NEED new microcode? the stuff works fine as it is...
whatever the reason, packagekit wants it, and cant get it for some reason.
 
  


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