[ltp] trackpoint doesn't recognized (2.6.23.17)

[Oleg Bartunov]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Richard Neill wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Richard Neill wrote:
>
>>>> I am many years owner of thinkpads+linux, but recently got a problem
>>>> with my x61s. Everything worked fine (except some buttons) for me until
>>>> I decided to upgrade kernel from 2.6.21.5 to 2.6.23.17.
>>>>
>
>>> 2 possible thoughts:
>>>
>>> 1)sometimes the serio device that you have to tweak changes between
>>> serio1, serio0 and serio2. I don't know why it's volatile, but you might
>>> check for the others.  If you have a "sensitivity" file somewhere, then
>>> the TP is probably working OK.
>>
>> no, I checked all serio*. And I checked dmesg output - no trackpoint was
>> detected
>>
>>>
>>> 2)A mistake I sometimes make is to do
>>>   sudo PROGRAM > FILENAME
>>
>> no, I did as root.
>
> One more thought: what happens if you dmesg | grep -i trackpoint ?
> I get this:
>
> $ dmesg | grep -i trackpoint
> [   25.078968] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3
> [   25.331344] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /class/input/input4

This is a problem, trackpoint doesn't detected. I wrote about this

>> no, I checked all serio*. And I checked dmesg output - no trackpoint was
>> detected

>
> Also, could this possibly be related to the synaptics driver?

In what way ?


 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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