Bug 13134
| Summary: | ALPS Touchpad not getting recognized anymore | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Pablo López Martín (pablolm2005) |
| Component: | Input Devices | Assignee: | Dmitry Torokhov (dmitry.torokhov) |
| Status: | CLOSED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | akpm, dmitry.torokhov |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.29 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: |
dmesg with i8042.debug kernel option
lspci -vv Output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices Output of lshal ALPS Touchpad picture -- Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 ALPS Touchpad picture -- Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 (bigger picture) Add signature for Satellite Pro M10 |
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lspci -vv
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Output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices
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Output of lshal
Hmm, it looks like the touchpad has signature 0x32 0x02 0x14 which is not known by ALPS driver yet. Could you please describe your device (does it also have a trackpoint, additional buttons, etc)? This touchpad has 4 physical buttons. A pair on the top and another pair on the bottom. Each pair is a left/right button combo. There is also a trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard between letters "F" and "G", but its use is optional. The touchpad section has a vertical and horizontal line painted to indicate the use of vertical/horizontal scrolling. I'm attaching a picture of it so you get a better idea of it. Created attachment 21045 [details]
ALPS Touchpad picture -- Toshiba Satellite Pro M10
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ALPS Touchpad picture -- Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 (bigger picture)
Which kernel version(s) worked OK? Thanks. I can't provide that information. This laptop has been recently installed 2 months ago. The previous OS was a Debian from about 4 years ago where the vertical/horizontal scrolling used to work. I didn't write down the previous kernel version and I did a clean install. Created attachment 21062 [details]
Add signature for Satellite Pro M10
In-kernel ALPS driver never supported this particular version of the ALPS touchpad; I wonder if Slackware had some kind of user-level driver installed.
OK, let's try figure out how to driver this device. Pablo, please try this patch, if it does not work try removing ALPS_PASS and/or ALPS_DUALPOINT and see if any combination produces desired result. If nothing works then replace both flags with 0 and after booting with i8042.debug try working your touchpad a bit and send me the full dmesg. Thanks!
The patch works flawless as it is, without touching ALPS_PASS and/or ALPS_DUALPOINT and the touchpad gets correctly recognized as AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Touchpad :-) The synaptics module on X loads correctly and doesn't exit like it used to because it finds an ALPS Touchpad instead of a Generic PS/2 Mouse. Vertical and Horizontal scrolling works perfectly. All buttons work as expected. Thanks a lot for your time Dmitry. Tell me if you need any more info. Regards, Pablo Wow, got it on the first try, nice :) OK, I'll make sure the patch gets into 2.6.30. Thank you very much for testing. |
Created attachment 21037 [details] dmesg with i8042.debug kernel option I'm using an ALPS Touchpad in my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. "Advanced features" in X like vertical/horizontal scrolling don't work because kernel doesn't recognize the mouse as a touchpad but as a "PS/2 Generic Mouse". I've looked in launchpad/google/debian bugtrack systems and this problem affects a lot of distros/hardware. All points it's a problem with the input subsystem. I've seen reports of people that say adding i8042.nomux=1 on boot fixes it for them. It doesn't for me. It's not a hardware error (at least in my case) because touchpad works flawless in windows.