Re: Touchpad sometimes detected twice

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 19:42:16 EST


On Thursday 07 September 2006 16:33, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Dmitry Torokhov may or may not have written...
>
> > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:56, Darren Salt wrote:
> >> Sometimes, the touchpad on my (new) laptop is detected twice. This can
> >> cause problems with udev: there may or may not be links in
> >> /dev/input/by-*, and if present, the links may be broken.
>
> >> Config etc. attached.
>
> > Hmm, you could try booting with i8042.nomux.
>
> Now tried, and added to the boot command line; so far, the problem hasn't
> reappeared.
>
> > Does this laptop have external PS/2 ports?
>
> No.
>

May I have the output of dmidecode utility so we can blacklist MUX mode
for that particular laptop please?

--
Dmitry
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