[ltp] No touchpad with latest BIOS?

[Andrew Barr]

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On Tuesday 30 May 2006 12:05, Richard wrote:
> while wiggling the various devices and pressing buttons?
>
> Do you get any data stream?
>
> How many devices do you see?

There's three event devices: trackpoint, keyboard, and HDAPS system. There's 
one mouse device (trackpoint) and the multiplexed 'mice' device. There's 
the 'uinput' device used for the /sbin/thinkpad-keys program. None of them 
react to the touchpad when I use 'cat'.

Additionally, 'dmesg | grep -i synaptics' doesn't yield anything whereas 
normally there are bootup messages about the touchpad (firmware, h/w version, 
etc.)

> I assume you are using a 2.6 kernel and udev? (practically any modern
> distro does this).

Yes, it's Debian unstable with 2.6.16 and udev 092.

> Lastly, I think that the tpad can be disabled as a BIOS config option -
> you might want to double check.

There aren't any knobs for the Touchpad in the BIOS, which I found strange, 
although I don't recall if they were there before.

I'm going to try reflashing the BIOS just to be sure.

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