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Synaptics Driver doesn't load for Lenovo ThinkPad Travel Keyboard

Bug #201253 reported by Chad Skeeters
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Nominated for Intrepid by Joti
Nominated for Jaunty by Joti
Nominated for Karmic by Noel J. Bergman
Nominated for Lucid by Noel J. Bergman

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

The Lenovo "ThinkPad Travel Keyboard - US English" (Part no. 31P9490) does not work with the current synaptics X11 driver/evdev. When running off of the boot cd, both the trackpoint and touchpad work, but only through the "mouse" driver, so none of the special touchpad functionality like scrolling works.

I was able to get it to work by installing the synaptics-usb kernel driver found at the url below, but I thought I should report this anyway and offer my assistance.

http://www.jan-steinhoff.de/linux/synaptics-usb.html (it's 06CB:0009, Synaptics Composite or UltraNav)

Attached are my logs/info/config when the system is setup as described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

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Chad Skeeters (goobsoft) wrote :

This is not a laptop, the file is just named that way...

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

so the X driver works with it, but kernel doesn't have the appropriate driver for it. Moving to 'linux' then.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Triaged
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Joti (joti2) wrote :

There is this Brainstorm ticket for this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16430/ and someone in Ubuntu forums seems to have had some success http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772025

I would *love* to see this running out of the box!

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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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tags: added: kj-triage
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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tags: added: kj-expired
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

This defect is still present in Lucid.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Expired → Confirmed
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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

Noel,
    Please open a new ticket for me on your issue. This bug has been closed due to lack of response from the original reporter.

Thanks!

~JFo

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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