[ltp] Synaptics touchpad broken with with kernel 2.6.15-rc*, X.org 6.8.2

Shem Multinymous linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:45:44 +0200


Hi,

On 12/21/05, Wolfgang Karall <spiney@spiney.org> wrote:
> >       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >       Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> I use the event protocol and the /dev/input/eventX device found in
> /proc/bus/input/devices.

It looks like the touchpad's /dev/input files don't exist:

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# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=3D0011 Vendor=3D0001 Product=3D0001 Version=3Dab54
N: Name=3D"AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=3Disa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=3D/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=3Dkbd event0
B: EV=3D120013
B: KEY=3D4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=3D10
B: LED=3D7

I: Bus=3D0011 Vendor=3D0002 Product=3D0007 Version=3D0000
N: Name=3D"SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=3Disa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=3D/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=3Dmouse0 event1
B: EV=3Db
B: KEY=3D6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=3D11000003

I: Bus=3D0011 Vendor=3D0002 Product=3D000a Version=3D0000
N: Name=3D"TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
P: Phys=3Dsynaptics-pt/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=3D/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=3Dmouse1 event2
B: EV=3D7
B: KEY=3D70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3D3

#  ls -l /dev/input/
total 0
crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 66 Dec 21 15:08 event2
crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 63 Dec 21 15:08 mice
crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 33 Dec 21 15:08 mouse1
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  Shem