karmic: touchpad is not recognized on vaio

[antonella]

The touchpad is working but it is not recognized in
xinput --list
instead there is a 'Macintosh mouse button emulation'.
There is no 'touchpad' tab in System->Preferences->Mouse.
I cannot disable tapping in my touchpad.

I attach

* /proc/bus/input/devices
* xinput --list
* cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

as asked in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection

I couldn't submit each file separately, I include then like a tarball.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: antonella 1720 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf8440000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9872AK'
   Components : 'HDA:83847662,104d0700,00100201 HDA:14f12bfa,104d0200,00090000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 8
Date: Wed Aug 18 22:37:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b6409f22-b4ea-4d97-8f05-5578109165e0
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-SZ5MN_B
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-22-generic 2.6.31-22.61
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic root=UUID=803fcfd1-87dc-465c-be06-d99a5c437582 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.61-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-22-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 04/12/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R0112N0
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR0112N0:bd04/12/2007:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-SZ5MN_B:pvrJ002G8SF:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-SZ5MN_B
dmi.product.version: J002G8SF
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi antonella,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[antonella (afylot)]

I tested against
 linux-image-2.6.36-999-generic_2.6.36-999.201009180905_i386.deb

still there isn't any 'touchpad' tab in 'system->preferences->mouse'.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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