touchpad not working on Toshiba Satellite A75 in FC2

[hlewis]

I cannot get my touch pad work at all in FC2. It works with Knoppix (2.4 kernel but not 2.6 kernel)
Having to always plug in a USB mouse is a pain. Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

[b3ck]

I have the same problem. dmesg doesn't show anything and nor /proc/bus/input/devices.

# dmesg |grep input
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Qtronix Corp USB MOUSE] on usb-0000:00:13.0-2


# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=abba
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120003
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05c7 Product=0113 Version=0001
N: Name="Qtronix Corp USB MOUSE"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: EV=f
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: ABS=100 0

Anyone have any ideas?

b3ck

[mark]

Originally Posted by hlewis

I cannot get my touch pad work at all in FC2. It works with Knoppix (2.4 kernel but not 2.6 kernel)
Having to always plug in a USB mouse is a pain. Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

This is hearsay, I haven't verified it myself on my Sony VAIO, but - I saw somewhere a while back (sorry, I'm working from a hastily scrbbled paper note) that adding:

psmouse.proto=imps

to the kernel line in grub should get the touchpad working. Further, at boot on the initial install, use the command:

linux psmouse.proto=imps

should make the installation more pleasant.

I have not verified, as I said - just about the time I stumbled across this tip I got my nice, new desktop up & running and I haven't really done much with my laptop (which currently has FC1 installed) since. So, please, someone try it & post the results here.

[b3ck]

I tried that on the grub kernel line. It did not work for me.

b3ck

[brucemilne]

I have a Toshiba A70, and needed to disable 'legacy USB support' in the bios. As soon as I did that, the touchpad (minus wheel functionality) began working.

[Darkmage]

Originally Posted by b3ck

I tried that on the grub kernel line. It did not work for me.

b3ck

Have you tried this synaptics driver http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ . Go to the download section, un-compress the file and follow the INSTALL direction. This is what I am using on my Laptop.

[zeinman]

the grub line worked for me !! Thanks.. I've got a Dell Inspiron.. good luck guys.