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Hi,
after upgrading to the new kernel, my Elantech touchpad doesn't work anymore. I guess that is the same problem like here
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63150
The other problem is much worse:
The keyboard stops working after some minutes. I couldn't figure out a pattern, sometimes it fails after logging in, sometimes it works for 30 minutes. It always failed some minutes after starting the X-Server. I log in on tty1 and start x manually, but as I said, the keyboard sometimes stops working even before starting X, so it can't have to do anything with xorg.
Searching through all the logfiles, I couldn't find anything interesting concerning the keyboard.
Meanwhile I downgraded to 2.6.27.9-1 and everything's fine again.
Has anyone similar problems?
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I'm running Arch i686 on an Acer Aspire 5502 WXMi
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Unlike all the Eeepcs, i have an old "hardware version 1" touchpad.
Last edited by Tommi (2009-01-21 20:27:28)
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G'Day,I just posted in another thread which may be the same problem
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Ok, getting closer now...
It looks like the problems with the touchpad are related to my keyboard problems.
My keyboard stops working when I tap on the pad or press any button on it. It starts working again after doing this two more times...
Now I'll try to get the touchpad working, I hope that solves the problem.
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It looks like the problem is caused by the psmouse-module. I found a workaround to restore (more or less) the behavior of 2.6.27:
Adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf
options psmouse proto=exps
and rebooting or doing "modprobe -r psmouse" and "modprobe psmouse" makes the kernel recognize the touchpad as a normal mouse (with working vertical-scrolling and multi-finger-taps, just as before). Then I get
[thomas@tommi ~]$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
...
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event8
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
instead of
[thomas@tommi ~]$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
...
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000e Version=0000
N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input15
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event8
B: EV=f
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=3
After that, on my external USB-mouse the wheel wasn't working, but after removing all mouse-entries from xorg.conf and using input-hotplugging it works for the moment.
Last edited by Tommi (2009-01-21 20:17:59)
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Thanks for this. New to arch, and the touchpad was my biggest problem so far.
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