Touchpad seen as ps2 mouse

[okie2003]

Mint 9 on a Dell Latitude E6510 laptop, 2.6.35-23-generic kernel I looked around and there are a lot of threads on touchpad disabling, but I didn't see anything on this,

I set out to disable tapping on the touchpad. Control Center > Mouse Preferences does not show any touchpad options. So I checked the following:

rob@rob-E6510 ~ $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
. . . . SNIP
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event11
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

lsmod | grep "syna\|tou\|mou"
psmouse 58969 0

$ /sbin/modprobe -l | grep "mous\|syna\|Syna"
kernel/drivers/usb/misc/idmouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/gpio_mouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/inport.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/logibm.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/pc110pad.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/vsxxxaa.ko
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.ko

How can I get the touchpad recognized as such so I can disable tapping?

[dawgdoc]

You seem to have the correct driver for a Synaptics touchpad, but I am not sure that you have a synaptics touchpad.

psmouse 58969 0

kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko

what do you get for the touchpad portion of

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xinput list

I saw one post in a openSuse forum which made me suspect that you may have an ALPS touchpad. I think ALPS will use the same driver but may have differences in configuration.

[okie2003]

rob@rob-E6510 ~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_3M id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

I still have a small win 7 partition, so I booted into it and found this: Dell Touchpad by Alps Eelctric plugged into the PS/2 mouse port

[dawgdoc]

The package used to supply the synaptics touchpad driver is xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and it should also control your Alps touchpad. However, if you check Package Manager, I think you will find that it is installed based on your previous posts.

In the repositories there is a package called tpconfig and has this description

This package provides a program that can show or modify the configuration of various touchpad devices, including the Synaptics TouchPad and the ALPS Glidepad/Stickpointer.

I am using LMDE, so you may not have the same application available in LM 9. If not a quick search in package manager for synaptics should yield something similar.

If there is not a configuration application available, this post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ps#p325685 and the entry two below it have links to sites to debug and configure touchpads and other input devices. I had looked them up previously for someone with an Alps touchpad.

[okie2003]

Thanks for your input. Based on your direction I had found some of these posts. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics was installed. I had also found and installed tpconfig, but it provided no help.

rob@rob-E6510 ~ $ sudo tpconfig
[sudo] password for rob:
Found Synaptics Touchpad.
Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode).

Looks like this is a known bug and may be close to a fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/380126

Thanks again for your help.