Touchpad on HP Compaq nx7010 does not work

[cmyrland]

Binary package hint: casper

While running Jaunty off a flash device (Live environment)/Live CD/Harddisk the touchpad does not work. I tried dmesg and found this:

$ dmesg | grep Tou
[ 52.315920] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x236eb3, caps: 0x904713/0x10008
[ 52.375802] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input7

so it's obviously found. It has never had any problems in ubuntu including intrepid. If you need more info, please let me know.

Edit: When I connect a usb mouse it works instantly, but the touchpaad remains dead. I have tried disabling and enabling the device several times with a dedicated button, to no avail

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Hello,

The same thing is happening on my HP Compaq NC6000 laptop. The touchpad + 4 mouse buttons ( 2 from touch pad and 2 from nub mouse ). do not work. In my case the nub mouse works fine, but the keys associated with it ( which are on the same circuit as the touch pad ) do not work.

Running Hardy, the touch pad works most of the time, occassionally it stops working and has the same symptoms as above.

From startup of Hardy :
[ 52.260664] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x1b6eb1, caps: 0xa84793/0x100000
[ 52.303946] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6

David

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Looks like it is being seen as a Macintosh mouse :

[ 3.044917] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
[ 3.044950] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
[ 3.058665] (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 3.058705] (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
[ 3.058725] (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
[ 3.058770] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 3.058792] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 3.058845] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
[ 3.058920] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 3.058946] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
[ 3.058977] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
[ 3.059029] (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) set acceleration profile 0

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Running on Ubuntu 8.04 here is a log, for comparison.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Xorg.conf from ubuntu 8.04

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Here is the Xorg.conf from Jaunty, looks like they are really pushing auto-detection at boot time.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

I tried to take the lines from Xorg.conf from 8.04 that are related to my mouse and add them to Jaunty's xorg.conf. This did not make any difference, although Xorg.0.log logged a generic ps2 mouse instead of a Mac mouse.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

As of the latest version of packets in Jaunty ( Februrary 25th 2009 : 2:52 ), the problem is still occuring.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

The bug I am having is with a harddisk installed version of Jaunty ( from the latest alpha available, not nightly).

[cmyrland (carl-rahien)]

As of Jaunty Alpha 5, upgraded (update-manager -d) from Intrepid today, touchpad is working again. However, I don't know if that is related to me doing a upgrade instead of a clean install.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and it did not help. Perhaps I should try what you did.

In the mean time, here is my lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:06.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
02:06.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

I ran the upgrade command you said ( update-manager -d ) it did not resolve the issue, it seems that apt-get dist-upgrade does the same thing.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Fresh install from 9.04 Alpha 5 and the problem is gone. Perhaps this was a duplicated ticket?

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

Someone already fixed this issue in Alpha 5 of Jaunty.