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From: Luke <llu@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo 2004.3 x86_64: having problems with keyboard and touch pad on eMachines laptop
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:20:01
Message-Id: 200412060819.42098.llu@vicaya.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo 2004.3 x86_64: having problems with keyboard and touch pad on eMachines laptop by Sergei Olonichev
1 I have the same model and everything (except the broadcom 54g nic) works great
2 including tapping and scrolling on the touchpad. m6809's bios is adequate
3 (unlike previous models)
4
5 On Saturday 04 December 2004 05:15 am, Sergei Olonichev wrote:
6 > Hello All!
7 >
8 > I installed Gentoo 2004.3 x86_64 on eMachines M6809 notebook. Everything
9 > works as expected except the built-in keyboard and touchpad (now I am
10 > using USB mouse and keyboard). There are some suggestions in internet to
11 > update BIOS and/or change kernel configuration but I don't wanna update
12 > bios and kernel my configuration seems to be fine.
13 >
14 > So, my question is: does anyone have similar configuration and have
15 > built-in keyboard and touch-pad working? Or what's wrong with my
16 > configuration?
17 >
18 > Some more info: they do not work in both console and X; in grub prompt
19 > built-in keyboard works fine; xev does not receive any messages from
20 > these devices.
21
22 This is a sign of lacking event support in the kernel config, make sure
23 CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is selected.
24
25 cat /proc/bus/input/devices should show two entries like this:
26 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
27 N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
28 P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
29 H: Handlers=kbd event0
30 B: EV=120013
31 B: KEY=402000000 3802078f840d001 f2ffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
32 B: MSC=10
33 B: LED=7
34
35 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
36 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
37 P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
38 H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
39 B: EV=b
40 B: KEY=6420 70000 0 0 0 0
41 B: ABS=11000003
42
43 __Luke
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