Comment 42 for bug 787738

(In reply to comment #22)
> I have no idea about the elantech+synaptics combination. However, I had a
> patch(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/31/211) which was to solve the detection
> of
> synaptics trackpoint issue mentioned above. Please give it a try and any
> feedback will be appreciated.

This patch didn't change the behavior on an L430 for me but it's an Elantech trackpad. Still see the following in my message log:

Nov 8 23:55:52 l430kl kernel: [ 950.573824] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 3 (with firmware version 0x350f02)
Nov 8 23:55:52 l430kl kernel: [ 950.587737] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0xb9, 0x15, 0x0c.
Nov 8 23:55:53 l430kl kernel: [ 950.657384] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.193698] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.279526] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.294517] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.309014] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.323015] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Nov 8 23:56:01 l430kl kernel: [ 959.323024] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request

The timeouts are generated as soon as I touch the trackpoint which doesn't function.