This problem is driving me crazy: seems that kernel 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 randomly fails to detect my touchpad, and because of this the scroll doesn’t work and the touchpad is misconfigured (middle-button doesn’t work, tap is enabled -I hate that!-, etc). I guess this is because the system treats the touchpad as a regular PS/2 mouse device.
I don’t know if there’s anything I can do to make the kernel detect the device correctly in every boot.
When it works, dmesg shows:
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000/0xa0000 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
When it doesn’t work, I can see no Synaptic line and input reports a generic mouse:
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
But lsusb shows the device is there:
$ lsusb | grep Synaptics Bus 002 Device 005: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad [Synaptics]
I can reboot until the touchpad is properly detected, but this isn’t a good workaround (damn randomness!).
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15R, and I believe the problem appeared with the aforementioned kernel. Any help would be very appreciated!
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