I can't get my synaptics touchpad to work. (A USB trackbal and a USB wacom tablet work fine) The kernel seems to detect the touchpad: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1280b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x204000 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5 The Event subsystem seems happy: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5 H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 B: EV=b B: KEY=6420 7000f 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=11000003 And Xorg finds it, but then stops it: (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "stylus" (type: Wacom Stylus) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Touchpad" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse2" Wacom unable to read first byte of request '~#' answer after 3 tries Wacom unable to read first byte of request '~#' answer after 3 tries (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event5 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5" (--) Touchpad touchpad found Synaptics DeviceOff called FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) APM registered successfully (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x800" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing extension GLX Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. Wacom unable to read first byte of request '~#' answer after 3 tries Wacom unable to read first byte of request '~#' answer after 3 tries (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event5 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5" (--) Touchpad touchpad found The touchpad does not work, and I don't get anything if I try "cat /dev/input/event5" or "cat /dev/input/mouse0" I don't know what to try next. Reproducible: Always Hardware is a Acer Aspire 5684 kernel is 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 on intel core duo2 worked under windows XP before reformatting the hard drive. I will attach emerge --info and the complete Xorg log file in a minute.
Created attachment 121033 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 121035 [details] Xorg.0.log
Damn. Should read the manuals. There is a hotkey - Fn-F7 - that switches the touchpad on or off. Fixed with a simple keypress. Sorry about that. Klaas
