fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I followed the instructions as per

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3...

and all seemed to go fine - no errors that I saw. However, having completed 
the upgrade the touchpad in my DELL Vostro has stopped working. It seems to 
view it as a PS/2 mouse but then it doesn't work, neither the pad or the 
buttons.

There are *old* references to this in Google but nothing I can use to fix the 
problem.  Yum update doesn't fix it.

Does anyone have instructions simple enough for me to follow to fix it.  Below 
are the outputs of xinput and lspci. I can't see anything 
in /var/log/messages but that doesn't mean there isn't something in there

[root@gary ~]# xinput 
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Mouse                                id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Webcam                         id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=15   [slave  keyboard (3)]
[root@gary ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory 
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 
Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated 
Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 
(rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 
(rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 
(rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 
(rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller 
(rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE 
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA 
Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 
03)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 
01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI 
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
08:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
08:05.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 
02)
08:05.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller 
(rev 01)
[root@gary ~]#

[Gary Stainburn]

If I boot into runlevel 3 the touchpad works fine.
I've run Xorg -configure but that made no difference
My Logitech cordless USB mouse work fine.
In KDE "System Settings" -> "Input Devices" the touchpad tab is disabled.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Gary Stainburn]

I still haven't managed to get my touchpad workin although my USB mouse is 
working fine.

One thing I don't have with the mouse that I did have with the touchpad was 
pressing both buttons to emulate the middle button and getting a "paste" 
action.

My mouse does actually have a middle button (a pressable scroll wheel) but 
pressing this doesn't give me the effect I want either.

Any suggestions?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Gary Stainburn sent:
> My mouse does actually have a middle button (a pressable scroll wheel)
> but pressing this doesn't give me the effect I want either.

Does that button actually work?  One way to test that is to open the
mouse preferences, and use the test gadget to see if all the buttons
provoke a response.

I've got two mice that have been resoldered many times, because they
fall off the desk and hit the middle mouse button/wheel and damage its
connection.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 18 June 2013 15:29:45 Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Gary Stainburn sent:
> > My mouse does actually have a middle button (a pressable scroll wheel)
> > but pressing this doesn't give me the effect I want either.
>
> Does that button actually work?  One way to test that is to open the
> mouse preferences, and use the test gadget to see if all the buttons
> provoke a response.
>
> I've got two mice that have been resoldered many times, because they
> fall off the desk and hit the middle mouse button/wheel and damage its
> connection.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

Hi Tim,

It does work as it works in Windows.

Likewise, I know there is nothing physically wrong with the touchpad.

I've had it suggested that I should try a Live DVD from another dist to see if 
that helps. I'm downloading SL as I type this

[Gary Stainburn]

I was given the following suggestion which has worked for other but not for 
me. Does this give anyone any ideas what I can try next?

Gary

I had the same issue with a Dell when I upgraded to Fedora 18, so I
added 'i8042.reset i8042.nomux=1' (without quotes) at the end of the
kernel boot options in Grub:

[root@portdav2 ~]# cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=es i8042.reset i8042.nomux=1"
[root@portdav2 ~]#

Some useful links:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28736/what-does-the-i8042-nomux-1-ke...
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=41200

Hope this helps,

David