Hi all,

I use an Excel Laptop (Local product of Australia) with Redhat 9

My Touchpad was working fine till now (even with different Distros...slack, mandrake and RedHat)..I also would use an USB mouse on the fly some times....no problems at all..

Suddenly out of the blue my Touchpad stopped working!!

Heres the dmesg output

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Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009ec00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009ec00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000dc000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000feff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000feff000 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ff00000 - 000000000ff80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ff80000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65408
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61312 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 2.4.20-8
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1694.502 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3381.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 252428k/261632k available (1347k kernel code, 6704k reserved, 999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd990, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.6
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.6 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.5
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 5
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1440-0x1447, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1448-0x144f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-20, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 147862
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,2): 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1400, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.4
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1420, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522104k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:04.1
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e0100000-e01007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[0050eb02000078b9] [Linux OHCI-1394]
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2044 buckets, 16352 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd08e0800, 00:50:eb:02:78:bd, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 02:04.0
Yenta IRQ list 0288, PCI irq5
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x20f 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i845 @ 0xe8000000 128MB
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 01:00.0
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-1, assigned address 2
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [1241:1111] on usb2:2.0
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 17:59:48 Mar 13 2003
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.5 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x1300 and 0x1200, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 10
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdc: ATAPI 12X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1f.4-1 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-1, assigned address 3
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [1241:1111] on usb2:3.0
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -110
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -110
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usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 62
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -84
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1f.4-1 address 3
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-1, assigned address 4
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on usb2
4.0
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I just cant figureout what i have done for the touchpad to stop working all of a sudden!!

Any Help in this regard will be greatly appreciated

Thanking you in advance

king_nothingzzz

I got it working when i installed the proper synaptics driver for it..

I dont know what had happened initially though...

You can find the driver here : http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/t....html#Download

It also has a FAQ for easy install...

I highly recommend use this driver to correct your touchpad .....

Cheers

king_nothingzzz

G'day M8, hot enough for ya?

I use kernel-2.6.x on my laptop, it has native support for synaptics touchpads.

This is the "InputDevice" section from my XF86Config (three button USB optical + touchpad),
and the "ServerLayout" section,

G'day Aussie....
Man this is the hottest Brissy i have seen so far....
Thanks for the help, my XFree86, now almost looks the same....
Cheers

king_nothingzzz

Heres my XF86config file...
I use 2.4.x with Synaptics touchpad and usb mouse.....both working fine...

ServerLayout
Extra Line i added in Module

Synaptics Driver

USB Mouse

Cheers

king_nothingzzz

Hey all,

Hope this is on-topic...

I also have synaptics to drive my mousepad (Topline Amicus laptop), but since I installed it, I can not simultaneously use the (PS/2?) mouse anymore. It's the type of mouse plugged in with a round 6-pins plug (PS/2 type?).

I compiled the 2.6.3 kernel with module support for serio and parkbd (and have them loaded). Running Sack 9.1.

When it's plugged in at startup it's recognised and working well, but only if I enable both the 'normal settings' and the 'synaptics settings' in Xfree86config. However, the mousepad doesn't 'tap' or scroll.

When only the synaptics drivers are enabled, X starts with a white-as-hell screen and hangs (with extra mouse plugged in).

Anyone knows how to configure XFree86 to have two functional mice at the same time?

AUSSI: I have never seen that CONFIG_PS"_SYNAPTICS in .config?! Did I miss anything in 2.6.3? I now have the drivers installed from the synaptics homepage.

I'll post XFree86.config later when I'm at my laptop. (and have another look at .config for the synaptics support)

[EDIT] snaps from XFree86.config:

AUSSI:
I seem to have no such option CONFIG_PS2_SYNAPTICS... any idea why not, and would I need it?


Thanx, Leon.

This is what i see wrong in your XF86Config file...

I'm no expert in Hardware, but this might help!!!

1. You cant have more than one core pointer, if you want to use an external mouse also, you have to set all other mouse input devices to *AlwaysCore* and one to *CorePointer*, like i have set my Touchpad to *CorePointer* and my USB to *AlwaysCore*

2. This should be your Synaptics section

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
blah blah
EndSection

3. This should be your *ServerLayour* section

Section "ServerLayout"
blah blah
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "AlwaysCore" #This is the Synaptics Touchpad
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" #Keyboard
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" #PS/2 Mouse
EndSection

One small advice : Always keep a backup of working XF86Config file, like rename it to XF86Config.backup before trying tricks with XF86

As i told earlier,i am no expert on hardware, it is best that someone (like Aussie) clarifies on this before you go ahead

Cheers

king_nothingzzz

Thanx kingnothingzzz

After closely reading your and Aussies config file I learned that I should have two different names for the mice. It works well now.

Only thing is that I need to have the PS/2 mouse plugged in before boot, otherwise it won't work. If I remember correctly, in RH9 I could use it by just plugging it in. Would that still be possible?

Thanx, Leon.

I dont know about PS/2 mouse, I use an USB mouse....

On Redhat 9, it works fine when i plug it in on the fly...

If i am not wrong, you can get a PS/2 mouse working by plugging it in on the fly and doing a redhat-config-mouse later

cheers

king_nothingzzz