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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [suse-kde] SuSE 9.2 Pro and Touchpad Issues
From:       Andrew Williams <andrew.williams () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-01-03 17:18:07
Message-ID: 41D97E4F.60401 () gmx ! net
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cms wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my
> Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was
> not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely
> difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over
> and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've
> used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked.
> Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in
> the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat
> functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of
> SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my
> intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine?
> 
> Searches on SuSE's Support Portal turned up zero articles related to ALPS
> Touchpad devices.
> 
> This is a snippet of dmesg, related to the mouse/touchpad:
> 
> ------- SNIP -------
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
> alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
> alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
> ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
>   Disabling hardware tapping
> alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a
> input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
> input: PC Speaker
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> ------- SNIP -------
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Chris Shanahan
> 

Someone posted a solution which I have tested and it works. 
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=8506&view=getnewpost
If that link is screwed, it comes down to you needing to add
psmouse.proto=bare
to your kernel options at boot-time.

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