Touchpad not recognized by the system

fakedrake · 2011-02-13 20:12:07

I found recently a netbook that i had bought 2 years ago which had ubuntu 9.04 installed. I wanted for a long time to try arch and i seized tha chance. Everything works nicely(after upgrading the kernel) except my touchpad. It is not even recognized by the kernel (i think):

[fakedrake@fakedrake-arch .tilda]$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0 
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1 
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event2 
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3e000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0001 Vendor=10ec Product=0269 Version=0001
N: Name="HDA Digital PCBeep"
P: Phys=card0/codec#0/beep0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event7 
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HDA Intel Headphone"
P: Phys=ALSA
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event8 
B: EV=21
B: SW=4

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=0084 Version=0110
N: Name="Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event9 
B: EV=17
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10

what to do?

EDIT: as you can see i have a usb mouse that functions ok

Last edited by fakedrake (2011-02-13 20:12:51)

fakedrake · 2011-03-02 20:46:39

Fixed it!! this took me soo long to figure out.
I simply added a kernel boot parameter: i8042=1

I am so happy this worked!!

Credit here:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread206118.html

litemotiv · 2011-03-02 23:12:21

Glad to hear you got it sorted out fakedrake, please mark your topic solved.

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#1 2011-02-13 20:12:07

Touchpad not recognized by the system

#2 2011-03-02 20:46:39

Re: Touchpad not recognized by the system

#3 2011-03-02 23:12:21

Re: Touchpad not recognized by the system

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