What does the output of dmesg say, in particular anything with "PS/2"
or serio mentioned?
The only line that mentions 'serio' is the one that loads the keyboard controller, and doesn't look relevant. The output of 'dmesg | grep PS/2' looks a little more interesting:
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f0e] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
That might be it, since I have no PS/2 ports (although it probably doesn't prove anything: maybe it can gain PS/2 ports with a docking station or something and needs a PS/2 controller for that).
I had a feeling that some modern machines put the pointing device on
the usb bus and not the ps2 serial one.
does lsusb show anything that might be the touchpad ?
With my [external] USB mouse unplugged, lsusb looks like:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I think those are the ports themselves, or something.
I hope that gives someone some ideas: thanks for the help. Matthew
Under Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my Toshiba Pro M50 I have a working Alps touchpad, and here are some clips which might help.
dmesg shows ... [17179575.564000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179591.692000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1 [17179591.696000] input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input2 [17179591.716000] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input3
lsmod includes psmouse 36100 0
xorg.conf has ( IIRC I had to change this to /dev/input/mice from /dev/input/mouse1 to enable both USB mouse and touchpad, but I'm a bit foggy here!) Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection
root@toshiba:/etc/X11# ls -al /dev/input total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220 2007-05-30 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 14920 2007-05-30 10:01 .. crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 2007-05-30 10:50 event0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 2007-05-30 10:50 event1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 2007-05-30 09:50 event2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 2007-05-30 10:50 event3 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2007-05-30 10:50 mice crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2007-05-30 09:50 mouse0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2007-05-30 10:50 mouse1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 128 2007-05-30 09:50 ts0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 129 2007-05-30 10:50 ts1 root@toshiba:/etc/X11#
within the GUI System->Admin->Device Manager I have the following settings for the Alps glidepad ( it shows it on the Aux-3 port on Platform Device (i8042) similar to the keyboard) input.device /dev/input/event3 linux.device_file /dev/input/event3
It would appear that mine does not use PS2 nor USB but the chipset i8042 for the keyboard and "mouse"
I hope this helps a bit. Keith
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