Elantech: touchpad refuses to switch to absolute mode

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This is my today’s greeting message on boot - the end of dmesg with couple more elantech lines and a login prompt.

How to get around it and start the X? I have USB mouse plugged in and so can live without touchpad if it refuses to behave.

It’s an old Acer x32 laptop with 12.3 xfce.

I’m typing this from a different machine so posting exact error messages is not very convenient. Basically it’s

[timestamp] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 1 (with firmware version 0x020000)
[timestamp] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x06, 0x02, 0x64
[timestamp] psmouse serio1: elantech: touchpad refuses to switch to absolute mode
[timestamp] psmouse serio1: elantech: failed to initialize registers
[timestamp] psmouse serio1: elantech: failed to put touchpad into absolute mode
doing fast boot
Creating device nodes with udev
Welcome to openSUSE 12.3 “Dartmouth” …

and a login prompt.

Maybe touchpad is failing, maybe it needs a different driver, but for now can somebody help me to disable it completely and not even try to initialize it on boot so I can use the laptop with a mouse instead?

What do I blacklist?

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False alarm.

Disregard all of the above - touchpad problem was not the cause of non-booting, if it was a problem at all.

I tried to see how touchpad and mouse work in live CD environment and the only one liveCD I found lying around was Gparted. I booted it and mouse was back, but then I saw that my root partition is full.

After resizing things and moving them around I added some free space to root and the system booted normally. Turns out I had several massive messages files in /var/log/ totaling over 8GB. Deleted those and now am going to resize root back to some 12-13 GB.

Touchpad works as usual.

Is there a way to delete the whole thread?

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Unfortunately not. You have 10 minutes to edit or delete the thread. This due to the fact that it also on nntp.