Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

["Johan Blåbäck" <johan.bluecreek@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johan Blåbäck
<johan.bluecreek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>  >
>  >  On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:13 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote:
>  >
>  >  > >  I suspect you need these options in your kernel:
>  >
>  >  [snip]
>  >
>  >
>  >  > Thanks for the reply, but I got all of those:
>  >
>  >  [snip]
>  >
>  >  hm.  Do you have INPUT_DEVICES="... synaptics" in /etc/make.conf?
>  >
>
>  Yes, just as the gentoo-wiki says:
>
>  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics"
>
>
>  >  I don't think your /proc/bus/input/devices looks quite right - are you
>  >  sure this isn't a pointer stick or something?  What's the complete file
>  >  look like?
>  >
>
>  I'm not familar with the term "pointer stick". I'm not at my computer
>  right now, but I'm sure that that is my touchpad... to about ~90%. If
>  I have an USB-mouse plugged in, I can see that mouse and my touchpad
>  (ImPS2 Logitech wheel mouse). When I unplug my USB-mouse I see my
>  touchpad(?) (ImPS2 Logitech wheel mouse) and... my touchpad(?)
>  (Generic PS/2 mouse). I can get you the whole output when I come home.
>

This is my complete /proc/bus/input/devices:

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event1
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=09da Product=000a Version=0110
N: Name="A4Tech PS/2+USB Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event4
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=303

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0063
N: Name="ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

>  I found a thread on ubuntuforums with people having the same problem.
>  But ubuntu have PS2MOUSE as module, and one solution is to reload that
>  module in, for example gdm. Which I see as a hack that I rather not
>  do, but I'll try it. If ou are interested for the problem I'll get the
>  forum thread URL later.
>

This did not work...

Another thing that is different from my problem from the ubuntu
problem (which I can't recreate) is that they get a synaptics device
when running `tpconfig -i`, which I do not.

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>  > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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