Re: Toshiba PS/2 touchpad on 2.6.X not working along bottom and right sides

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Dec 29 2004 - 23:38:56 EST


On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:11 am, Andrew Haninger wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I recently installed Linux 2.6.10 on my Gateway Solo 2500 notebook
> after using it happily with 2.4.27 (aside from some ACPI sleeping
> issues). Since installing the new kernel, I've noticed an odd problem
> with the Toshiba PS/2 touchpad which is used as a cursor. If I move my
> finger left and right along the 'bottom' portion of the touchpad or up
> and down along the right side, there is no movement from the mouse
> cursor at all. This behavior shows up using gdm and XFree86. Running
> 'xev' produces no output when these sides are used. However, if I move
> my finger left-right along the top side or up-down along the left
> side, the cursor moves just fine. Tapping the pad to click in the
> non-working areas and moving the finger from outside of these areas
> and then into them, however, works fine

What does dmesg and /proc/bus/input/devices say about your touchpad?

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Dmitry
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