On September 27, 2004 03:24 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Until recently, my Dell Latitude L400 touchpad was being happily detected > by my Linux kernel (2.6.7) at bootup, and was working fine in X, but then > mysteriously dissapeared? I suspect a blundering apt-get install of udev > which appeared to erase /dev/fd0. However, I was able to recreate /dev/fd0 > by re-booting with the floppy drive attached, (after apt-get purging udev),
But isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? If you don't have your floppy drive inserted, you hardly need to have a /dev/fd0. > but re-booting without my USB mouse attached has not revived my touchpad > :-( Did you always have to do that? I do. I can only attach my USB mouse (on an Inspiron 2500 w/ 2.6.7) _after_ I get the Synaptics pad recognized. I'm sure that's something to do with the ordering of the loading of various modules, because I can get X to start up if I very carefully remove all the modules, then modprobe psmouse, then start X, then connect the USB mouse. I wonder it it would help to add mousedev to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and modprobe it later... w/ 2.4.27 I can't use the USB mouse at all. > > Attached is a relatively short diff of my last touchpad-successful boot > compared with the following unsuccessful one. As can be seen from the > diff, it was being recognised as a "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on > isa0060/serio1". Since then it hasn't been recognised once! > modprobe psmouse (which will also insert hid and evdev, maybe others) -- derek
