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Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

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[Solved]I can't get the trackpad to work!

Hey, I'm having trouble trying to make work the trackpad on my recently adquired 1ghz celeron notebook that my dad replaced for a new one , I tried booting ubuntu to see if linux had any support for it and it workds pretty flawlessy there (but the ubuntu livecd takes around half an hour to boot). I cannot exactly put my xorg.conf because I'm one network cable short of having the both the laptop and my desktop in the lan at the same time, but I'll try my best to provide all the information needed.
X starts, but the pointer won't go anywhere, when I exit, the error message goes like:

(EE) Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Touchpad Unable to query/initializa Synaptics hardware
(EE)PreInit failed dor input device "Touchpad"

and in Xorg.conf I have:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xorg configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "Synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
...

Any ideas on what to do? I already run out of ideas, I don't think messing around with the bios is needed since Ubuntu used it just well, also, by the way, copying ubuntu's xorg on top leads to the exact same result.

Thanks

EDIT:
I also noticed that the there isn't any SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad in /proc/bus/input/devices and that X also says

Touchpad no Synaptics event device found (checked 14 nodes)
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8

EDIT
I was missing the psmouse module, it's working now.

Last edited by Phrodo_00 (2008-02-17 16:25:08)