Hi all,
I’m testing out opensuse 12.1 on this laptop and everything works great except for my touchpad. The touchpad sometimes doesn’t initialize and when it does I get frequent touchpad quirkyness, ie. stops working, or freezes for a few seconds.
When this happens I get messages like these in the syslog:
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio4
The 1st one is the one that I get most of the time but sometimes the others show up too. I haven’t tried that much in opensuse yet to solve the problem but in Debian/Ubuntu I’ve tried many different kernel versions, a few kernel flags, and some options with synclient. But nothing seems to help.
From what I’ve read it seems to be either a bug in the kernel or in the synaptics driver.
Has anyone else solved this or does anyone have any creative suggestions to try?
Thanks,