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touchpad driver Dell Inspiron 3800

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• Started 12 years ago by xoanan
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   xoanan
   

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   Hi All

   For my next project-- add a driver for the touchpad and use it rather than the usb mouse. I installed the synaptics driver, and evdev, edited the xorg.conf to include synaptics; so far, no joy.

   Any ideas on this one?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   The touchpad should work even if you don't have a specific driver installed.
   Slitaz kernel is compiled to provide touchpad PS2 mouse emulation:
   CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y
   CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
   What brand/model touchpad:
   lspci -nn

   Paste your /var/log/Xorg.0.log at pastebin.com
   Provide the URL link here.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   xoanan
   

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   ok;
   xoanan@slitaz:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge [8086:7190] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge [8086:7191] (rev 03)
00:03.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1225 [104c:ac1c] (rev 01)
00:03.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1225 [104c:ac1c] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA [8086:7110] (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB [8086:7112] (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI [8086:7113] (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator [125d:1998] (rev 10)
00:08.1 Communication controller [0780]: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Modem Accelerator [125d:1999] (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x [1002:4c4d] (rev 64)


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   xoanan
   

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   http://pastebin.com/bpVqu0JA

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   mojo
   

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   Synaptics module unloads,it can't find your touchpad:
   Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 13 nodes)
   (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
   (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mouse1
   No such file or directory.
   Synaptics driver unable to open device
   (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Touchpad"
   (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

   Open terminal
   dmesg | less
   Scroll down and find the kernel messages describing your touchpad.
   Post them if you find them.

   For example from a Dell Inspiron E1505:
   Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000/0x0
   input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input
   2

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   xoanan
   

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   I don't see anything like it in dmesg; I see the usb mouse I am using though

   http://pastebin.com/9pgeHNr0

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   mojo
   

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   It's not there.
   Try both stable and cooking.
   Does the touchpad work with other distros?
   Another place to look is /proc/bus/input/devices
   For example:
   I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
   N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
   P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
   S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2
   U: Uniq=
   H: Handlers=mouse0 event2
   B: EV=b
   B: KEY=6420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   B: ABS=11000003

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   xoanan
   

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   The touchpad has never worked; I have tried Lubuntu live, and it would not work with that either.

   No, I don't see it in the devices file.

   I do see 2 ps2 mice though.

   http://pastebin.com/r7b4tXND

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   xoanan
   

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   Correction; the PS2 compatible mouse is the touchpad according to the documentation from Dell
   http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pstar/en/sm_en/overview.htm

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    xoanan
    

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    Fixed it; the trackstick cable was disconnected. Simple hardware issue, go figure. Thanx Mojo!

    Posted 12 years ago #

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