On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:35:19PM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
I just bought a new Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook with an Elantech touchpad. There's a kernel bug that forces the touchpad to come up as a PS/2 mouse, and none of the built-in or optional touchpad tools even see that there's a touchpad installed. So only pointing and the buttons work, and I can't turn it off when there's a USB mouse connected.
I filed a bug in openSUSE Bugzilla for this on both 11.4 and 12.1. The first reporting of this bug seems to have been for Samsung notebooks on Ubuntu 11.04:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/681904
but there's an entry there that implies to me that it's the same problem I have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/6819...
I also tried Fedora 15 and it has the same problem. There are some patches in the Ubuntu bug report, though, and I'd like to test them on 12.1 Milestone 5. If I have the devel_kernel pattern installed, what else do I need to build and test a kernel / initrd?
You need the kernel source package as well.
BTW, kernel.org seems to be down at the moment, so I can't verify the kernel bug tracker entry for this. But there's definitely activity on the Elantech driver on the LKML archives, so I'm pretty sure there's a way I can get this fixed.
Yes, please poke the upstream developers to resolve this, I've seen patches for this driver floating around for way too long now. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org