[ltp] [FIXED] trackpoint no longer working

[Stephen Evanchik]

On 7/21/05, Nils Trebing <nils.trebing@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> With this patch, the trackpoint works again. However, I can't set any
> options like sensitivity or speed. Perhaps there is already something
> going wrong during the build. Modinfo only shows this:


Module parameters are deprecated with respect to configuring device
behavior, sysfs is the new method.

> However, your new patch creates some files in
> /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0:

This looks ok.
=20
> But echoing values in some of these files like sensitivity or speed
> doesn't do anything. Finally, regardless of which patch I use, dmesg
> always shows this:

echo adds a newline to the end of every line which is invalid, use
echo -n instead or use sysfsutils (I think there are scripts to write
values to sysfs files in the test subdirectory).

> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x2c6ab1, caps: 0x884793/0x0
> serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
> input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0E
> input: TrackPoint IBM TrackPoint on synaptics-pt/serio0

This looks correct to me.

Stephen