<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, Thanks for reply, meantime I found a Ubuntu bug where this problem is discussed for many new HP machines. If I well understood there is some kernel detection problem that should be fixed in newer kernels. People in this bug report say something about xorg-input drivers that should be used in new kernels for the synaptics touchpad detection. I'll try their patches then I let you know. Here the bug report: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/582809">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/582809</a> Cheers, Louis Il 23/10/2010 14:50, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTi=yRtAxC2fj63rtWHYdWU8LFK59XojgYnvEbnmD@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Louis Ixo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lixo1@hotmail.fr"><lixo1@hotmail.fr></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, Thank you for your reply! please run evtest against the device to check if the information we get from the kernel is correct. note that you need to VT switch away from the server to get events out of the synaptics device I just tried, first I killed Xorg then I run evtest /dev/input/mouse1 (touchpad), and I got: evtest: can't get version: Inappropriate ioctl for device </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You need to run it against the evdev device. It will be one of /dev/input/event* nodes, and you can look at the symlinks in /dev/input/by-{id,path} to determine which one. Or you can read /proc/bus/input/devices to see which device it is. -- Dan _______________________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org:">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org:</a> X.Org support Archives: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lixo1@hotmail.fr">lixo1@hotmail.fr</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>