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Hello all. When I first installed everything my touchpad worked just fine. I don't use it often (they drive me nuts) but in the last couple weeks I have been on the road some, and it would have been handy to use my trackpad when using my laptop (literally) on my lap, but it is no longer working.
I have looked and googled and tried a few things, but nothing seems to work. As I said, when I first installed slack the touchpad worked even when I had my usb mouse connected. Now I can't get my trackpad to work at all. Any help is greatly appreciated. Commented pieces of my xorg.conf are solutions I tried that did not work.
I am assuming my trackpad is a synaptics, but I really don't know. I can't say that I can see any information that tells me specifically that it is a synaptic.
I will take a look at the link. I tried it and the log says the driver is not installed. Not sure why I would need a driver installed though since it did work when I initally installed Slack on it. I will let you know how it turns out, thank you very much for the help.
After following the link, I downloaded the driver, compiled and installed it. In the event it means something, I had to move the driver files manually after I installed them. Not sure why but they actually installed into /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/lib/xorg . After moving them, it shows that the driver did actually load, but could not find a touchpad device to work with. Pertinent sections of the log are below.
Code:
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.15.0
Synaptics Mouse no synaptics event device found (checked 19 nodes)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "5300"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
(**) Option "FingerLow" "25"
(**) Option "FingerHigh" "30"
(**) Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
(**) Option "CornerCoasting" "1"
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) Synaptics Mouse no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Mouse Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(--) Mouse0: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
I did confirm that my touchpad is a synaptics, in the event this might help, here is what is reported from /proc/bus/input/devices
This is the relevant sections of my xorg.conf that works for the touchpad in my Toshiba 1410 laptop. This is an old model with the ALPS Glidepoint touchpad.
Please note the Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Also I do not have:
I have a Toshiba A135 with ATI driver. My touchpad works along with a Logitech V320 USB Mouse. The Xorg.conf is below, except mine has NO specific touchpad section in the xorg.conf file, but the touchpad works.
I have a Toshiba P105 17" Laptop with Intel hardware and number pad. The touchpad works on it as well as the USB mouse. Here is the relevant info from the Xorg.conf file:
Sorry for the delay, but I have tried everything I can think of and still stuck. I have also followed a few other threads, and while I am just about at the point that I really don't care, I am also at the point that I want to get this fixed if it kills me. I downloaded compiled and installed the synaptic driver from SlackBuilds.org, and I commented out he IMPS/2 line as stated in that documentation. I have modified the drivers in my xorg.conf, and everything else I can think of, and still no joy. The seemingly crazy thing (to me) is that if I am reading my Xorg.0.log correctly, it appears that the trackpad is being recognized, but still not responding.
The device is being recognized (as mentioned in the installed docs) by the kernel:
Code:
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x25a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x0
synaptics: Toshiba Satellite A135 detected, limiting rate to 40pps.
rtc_cmos: probe of 00:07 failed with error -16
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
I am not sure what (if anything) the error or unstability identified means in relation to this.
The Xorg.0.log shows that it loaded:
Code:
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 0.15.1
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
...snip...
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.15.1
(--) Synaptics Mouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(II) Synaptics Mouse: x-axis range 1472 - 5472
(II) Synaptics Mouse: y-axis range 1408 - 4448
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "5300"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
(**) Option "FingerLow" "25"
(**) Option "FingerHigh" "30"
(**) Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
(**) Option "CornerCoasting" "1"
(--) Synaptics Mouse touchpad found
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) Synaptics Mouse: always reports core events
..snip...
(II) evaluating device (Synaptics Mouse)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(--) Synaptics Mouse touchpad found
(--) Mouse0: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
I read in another thread that for someone, if they disabled their Mouse0 their trackpad then worked. I tried that also to no avail.
I am a bit unclear on the relationship of the psmouse module. currently, lsmod reports it as being loaded, however, it is also reports that it as not being used.
Still no joy. The log keeps reporting that the touchpad is identified, but no response is seen on screen.
I removed the errant space that was indicated, and also implemented the changes described in the article that was linked. I was really hoping that would work since I am using Slack 12.1 too.
I am still open to other ideas if anyone can think of anything, and I will post whatever information may seem helpful, but at this point, I have no idea what else to try.
Comprookie, I do appreciate your efforts. It is things like this that make me thankful for the community.
allend,
All lines in my /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse are commented out. I did that when I read the docs that came with the syanptics driver I downloaded from the Linuxpackages.net site.
As far as the other settings, I just commented out those sections of my xorg.conf and tried again with the settings you provided, still no joy. Crazy thing is that Xorg.0.log reports the trackpad as being found and the driver loaded and it seems to report that it loaded correctly without errors. (no errors in the log file)
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