2.6.0-0.test3.1.31, mice and acpi

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Joshua Legbandt wrote:

>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:16:04 -0700
>From: Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt at earthlink.net>
>To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
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>Subject: Re: 2.6.0-0.test3.1.31, mice and acpi
>
>No bites? Am I the only person having these troubles with the
>2.6.0-0.test3.1.31 rpms?
>
>[top posting only because it really makes since to this time...]
>
>-Josh
>
>On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:05, Joshua Legbandt wrote:
>> I've installed Arjan's 2.6.0-0.test3.1.31 kernel onto my laptop (a
>> compaq presario 2715US) and it seems to be working almost flawlessly. I
>> say almost because I have found 2 issues:
>> 
>> 1st my PS/2 touchpad does not seem to be working. dmesg shows that it is
>> found, but it is not working on the command line (with gpm) or with X.
>> The relevant dmesg output is:
>> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
>>  Firware: 5.8
>>  Sensor: 29
>>  new absolute packet format
>>  Touchpad has extended capability bits
>>  -> multifinger detection
>>  -> palm detection
>> input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
>> 
>> My usb mouse works fine after modifying /etc/modprobe.conf after
>> changing the alias for usb-controller from usb-uhci to uhci-hcd
>> 
>> 2nd, the important acpi modules (battery, processor, thermal and ac)
>> don't load, and I don't understand enough about modprobe.conf editing to
>> make them work. With the 2.4 kernel + acpi patches, I had just compiled
>> them into kernel, but if I can stick with an rpm'd kernel I'd be
>> happier. After boot, I'm able to load the modules with the following
>> commands:
>> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko
>> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname
>> -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko
>> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko
>> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
>> 
>> I've added the following to my rc.local to get them to work, but I think
>> there should be a cleaner way of loading those modules:
>> kern_maj_ver=`/bin/uname -r | /bin/awk -F. '{print $2}'`
>> kern_ver=`/bin/uname -r`
>> if [ "$kern_maj_ver" = "6" ]
>>   then
>>     echo "/sbin/insmod
>> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko"
>>     echo "/sbin/insmod
>> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko"
>>     echo "/sbin/insmod
>> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko"
>>     echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko"
>> fi
>> 
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>> -Josh

To use a synaptics touchpad with the 2.6 kernel, you need to 
download the GPL'd synaptics XFree86 input driver and compile it 
against XFree86 source code.

Before anyone files a request in bugzilla to have this driver 
added, there is already multiple requests in bugzilla.  I'll be 
investigating this in the future.



-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat