could anybody bring me up to date on psm0 and synaptic touchpad compatibility?

[Shadoe]

Shadoe wrote:

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>> On 2003-11-29 17:44 -0800, Jason Goddard wrote:
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>>> I have been curious to find out if psm0 is now compatible
>>> with the ps2 synaptics touchpad and if yes what mode does it support...
>>>
>>> plus which features does it support
>>> finally if there is docs for extended features.
>>>
>>> help would be deeply appreciated
>>>   
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> I had been struggling with this for weeks, compiling and recompiling 
> my kernel,  enabling and disabling moused. etc etc
> I have a dell inspiron 1100 running 4.9 RELEASE,  I googled and found 
> a few things to try,  I disabled moused first of all.
> then in my XF86Config I have:
> Identifier   "Synaptics"
> Driver       "mouse"
> Option "Protocol"   "auto"
> Option "Device"     "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons"
> (because I changed the identifier to "Synaptics" also made sure to 
> change that in layout section)
> In my kernel config I have this line for keyboard and psm0
> device         atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
> device         atkbd0   at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
> device         psm0     at atkbdc? irq12 flags 0x1000
>
> recompiled kernel for the thousandth time. rebooted...
> noted psm0 showed up in the boot messages (YAY)
> did moused -p /dev/psm0 (nearly had a heart attack when it didnt say 
> "device not configured")
> vidcontrol -m on
> pointer appeared in console and worked! started X and finally have a 
> working touchpad.
> Im still slightly in shock,  first got fullscreen 24 bit display in X 
> on this thing last night and tonight finally got touchpad working,  no 
> more external mouse :)
> Well that was what worked for me,  I havent looked into any special 
> options on it,  as I am just thrilled its working at all.
> Hope it helps someone else too
> Cheers,
> Michelle

eek I typoed the psm0 line
make sure theres a space between irq and 12,  my bad :/
(tho Im sure someone caught that)