On Sunday 14 November 2004 23:45, Graham Smith wrote:

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:16, cms wrote:

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Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine?

Well I have a similar problem with my laptop, an old Clevo model. The touchpad works fine but an external PS/2 mouse does not work. I can move the mouse pointer with the external mouse but none of the buttons work. I have tried a number of different mouse and driver settings to no avail. I dislike using the touchpad and prefer to use an external mouse.

Again all previous versions of SuSE have worked without a problem with this laptop. I suspect there is something amiss with the alps driver.

-- Regards,

Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

I've tried several different mouse types offered in YaST's Control Center, however, none work as well as I'd like. Nothing that I've tried so far works as well as previous installations (e.g. SuSE 9.1, 8.2, etc.) have worked. I submitted a request to SuSE installation support. I'll pass their recommendations on when I hear from them. Thanks to all. Chris Shanahan

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difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine?

I am experiencing the same exact problem. I do have a work around, which is an external mouse, but I never use it. I just deal with the problem. I haven't trained myself to ignore the problem, and I constantly find myself tapping the touchpad trying to make it work.

I have the same generic PS/2 drive loaded.

Unfortunately, since this system is not backed up, I don't have a copy of the boot.{log,msg}.

Sorry, I forgot to say I have a Toshiba A25, which is just over a year old.

Howzit Chris? I've been having these problems since I upgraded to 9.1 or 9.2, I can't remember which but I am still experiencing them using 9.3. What I do know is that previously it was detected as a Synaptics touchpad (or I installed that driver with SaX2) but it worked very well, including double tapping and no arbitrary changing of focus. Unfortunately changing the default driver to the Synaptics driver no longer resolves the problem. Currently the touchpad is like a hypersensitive mouse on steroids. It would be great if SuSE could unbreak this as I think it is head and shoulders above the rest of the distros. BTW my configuration: Sony VAIO VGN-A140B SuSE 9.3 Pro XOrg 6.8 KDE 3.4.2 If there's anything I can do to help resolve this please give me a shout. Cheers Bruce PS One other problem that needs fixing is the missing icons for non-KDE apps when you upgrade KDE to 3.4.2. On Friday 19 November 2004 16:34, cms wrote: To those having touchpad/mouse issues with their new 9.2 installations, I just received a response from SuSE's installation support team with instructions detailing additional information needed for their support personnel to identify and fix the problem. I sent that information to them. As soon as I hear back with a solution I will post it here for everyone's benefit. Chris Shanahan On Sunday 14 November 2004 12:16, cms wrote:

Hello all,

Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine?

Searches on SuSE's Support Portal turned up zero articles related to ALPS Touchpad devices.

This is a snippet of dmesg, related to the mouse/touchpad:

------- SNIP ------- mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected Disabling hardware tapping alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ------- SNIP -------

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Chris Shanahan

On Friday 23 September 2005 21:34, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 16:52 +0100, DBA wrote:

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Howzit Chris?

I've been having these problems since I upgraded to 9.1 or 9.2, I can't remember which but I am still experiencing them using 9.3.

What I do know is that previously it was detected as a Synaptics touchpad (or I installed that driver with SaX2) but it worked very well, including double tapping and no arbitrary changing of focus. Unfortunately changing the default driver to the Synaptics driver no longer resolves the problem. Currently the touchpad is like a hypersensitive mouse on steroids.

Not broken just upgrade from 91 to 92 then 93. Solution Clean Install. You did make /home its own partition.

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Same here, clean install of 9.3, no problems. Actually it is even better than before, now the little scroll area at the right side of the touchpad works. Very easy scrolling windows up and down! Regards, Matt

Paul Hands wrote:

Just for info, I've just installed 9.2 on my IBM ThinkPad T30 with no issues whatsoever - it even installed the wireless ethernet, which I never go working on 9.1. The touchpad, and the trackpoint button and the external mouse all work fine.

P.

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 08:29 -0500, Andrew Choens wrote:

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For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work.

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From following the discussion here, it would appear that upgrading to 9.2 can be a potentially difficult task for laptop users. If anyone contacts SUSE support and gets this touchpad issue resolved I would love to hear about it. Until then, I think I'm going to stick to 9.1. I can't afford to crap out my laptop.

--andy

hmmm, one positive. I just went trawling for success stories with this posting: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=ST&f=33&t=8506 -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html

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For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed

correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. </snip>

From following the discussion here, it would appear that upgrading to 9.2 can be a potentially difficult task for laptop users. If anyone contacts SUSE support and gets this touchpad issue resolved I would love to hear about it. Until then, I think I'm going to stick to 9.1. I can't afford to crap out my laptop. Actually, I found that 9.2 works better on my laptop that did 9.1. One of the problems I had with 9.1 was the tapping sensitivity of the touchpad. Under the 2.4 kernel, it worked fine, and under the 2.6 kernel it either did not work at all or was so sensitive, it would respond to a breath. On 9.2, the touchpad sensitivity is back to normal.

The issues I have with 9.2 is that: 1. The CDs do not contain all the packages in the distro. 2. My laptop is unable to read the multi-layer DVD. We had a discussion on this on the SuSE English list. I think this can be solved by providing an archive of the packages left off the CDs. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9