[ltp] No touchpad with latest BIOS?

[Andrew Barr]

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I recently got my ThinkPad R51 back from IBM. That was my first experience 
with IBM service...wow. I called last Thursday, the box came Friday morning 
and was gone within eight hours, and the machine was at my doorstep repaired 
at 9:15 the next business day (today). There's one small issue, though, and 
I'm not sure it's related: my touchpad doesn't work. The TrackPoint works 
okay, but at no level does the system see the Synaptics Touchpad. It doesn't 
have it's usual entries under /sys, and HAL doesn't see it either. I booted 
from a LiveCD and it was dead there too. According to the enclosed letter, 
IBM updated the BIOS and embedded controller programs. I think my EC program 
was already the latest (1.04), but I knew I was a few revisions behind in the 
BIOS department. The latest and now the version installed on this machine is 
verison 1.27.

Another possibility might be that the tech forgot to connect the touchpad or 
it got disconnected physically during repair and no one noticed. And then 
there's the possibility that there's something wrong with my Linux 
system--this hard disk was in an R50e for some weeks which doesn't have a 
touchpad. I could have broken some software and not known it.

I was just wondering if anyone knew what could be wrong. I have a Bluetooth 
module I'm going to install in this machine so I can check the touchpad 
connection then.

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Andrew Barr | andrew.james.barr@gmail.com
http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/

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