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Old 09-15-2004
Touchpad not working - SuSE 8.2 - Toshiba Satellite A30
Hi all,

I have a bit of an inexplicable problem....

Up until today, on my Toshiba Satellite A30 Laptop running SuSE 8.2 Professional, I had a dual mouse (USB Mouse / Touchpad) configuration in X and everything was running fine.

I booted the laptop today, and for some reason unbeknownst to me, the touchpad has stopped working.

Now.... it isn't a "hardware" issue. If I restart the X server, the Touchpad works UNTIL I move the USB mouse. Then the touchpad refuses to do anything.

If I log into KDE, and launch YaST2 Mouse config, selecting the PS2 mouse (i.e the touchpad) works whilst I'm testing it, but as soon as I apply it, bam, it stops working again.

All the while this is going on the USB mouse is working fine.

I have spent all afternoon inside vi fiddling around with XF86Config, but nothing seems to get things back the way they were.

Now... I have not done anything (to my knowledge) that should have messed things up. I have reverted to a backup XF86Config that was DEFINITELY working before, and the Touchpad still refuses to work. I have re-read the "Second Mouse in XFree86" HOWTO, and my settings are fine. I have booted with a "stock" SuSE kernel and the same problem is there. So if it isn't hardware and it isn't XF86Config, then WTF is it?!?!?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, because the laptop will soon be going out of the window!

Cheers all,
ZB
 
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toshsat1800-irdasetup

TOSHSAT1800-IRDASETUP(1)					   User Commands					  TOSHSAT1800-IRDASETUP(1)

NAME

       toshsat1800-irdasetup - IrDA setup utility for Toshiba Satellite 1800

SYNOPSIS

       toshsat1800-irdasetup [options]

DESCRIPTION

       IrDA  configurator  for	laptops  with  ALI1533 bridge (LPC47N227 SuperIO), smc-ircc and not initializing BIOS (tested on Toshiba Satellite
       1800-514) to be used with Linux kernel.

OPTIONS

       -a, --skip-decoding-cfg skip ISA bridge decoding configuration

       -b, --skip-smc-ircc-cfg skip SMC-IRCC configuration

       -v, --vendor=VALUE      look for the specified ISA bridge PCI vendor id

       -x, --device=VALUE      look for the specified ISA bridge PCI device id

       -c, --cfgbase=VALUE     set SMC-IRCC IO cfgbase address

       -s, --sirbase=VALUE     set SMC-IRCC IO sirbase address

       -f, --firbase=VALUE     set SMC-IRCC IO firbase address

       -m, --dma=VALUE	       set SMC-IRCC DMA channel

       -i, --irq=VALUE	       set SMC-IRCC IRQ

       -p, --print	       print ISA bridge configuration

       -h, --help	       show this help

SEE ALSO

       More detailed information in /usr/share/doc/toshset/README.IrDA or online at http://www.csai.unipa.it/peri/toshsat1800-irdasetup/

AUTHOR

       toshsat1800-irdasetup was written by Daniele Peri <peri@csai.unipa.it>.

       This manual page was written by Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

toshsat1800-irdasetup						    August 2005 					  TOSHSAT1800-IRDASETUP(1)