Touchpad not work (HP 500 Notebook RQ260AA)

The touchpad in an HP 500[1] doesn't function in 2.6.17 (nor, apparently, feisty?). The problem appears to be with the i8042 kernel driver - it doesn't find the psaux port on the ps2 controller (and thus never the touchpad). There is a crude fix and a description of the problem, as affecting several users in the thread Juan linked to above.

dmesg reports:

PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:C1A4,PNP0f13:C1A5] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
Failed to disable AUX port, but continuing anyway... Is this a SiS?
If AUX port is really absent please use the i8042.noaux option.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

There doesn't appear to be an upstream fix for this (or at least according to google), and the problem is reported as affecting Fedora Core 6 here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions//showthread.php?t=523181 (similar patch available there).

Regards,

Matt

1. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3264343&lang=en&cc=us&jumpid=hpr_R1002_USEN

Needs fixes from upstream

The form to repair is described it in: http://hp500.xf.cz/us/Main.html (Section: "Optimizing Linux kernel for HP500 notebook and making touchpad working").

Same issue with an HP 510 Notebook. Touchpad not detected so Xorg doesn't see it.

[ 15.973194] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:C1A4,PNP0f13:C1A5] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 15.977867] Failed to disable AUX port, but continuing anyway... Is this a SiS?
[ 15.978939] If AUX port is really absent please use the 'i8042.noaux' option.
[ 15.981040] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

Problem still present on 2.6.20-15-generic

Hi,

One way to solve this is edit drivers/input/serio/i8042.c source, line #549 (i8042_check_aux function), and add:

return 0;

Dr Neo,

You've marked this as "Needs info". What info do you need?

i have same laptop and i`m confirming. ubuntu 7.04, latst kernel

just fellow instuctoin at web site
http://hp500.xf.cz/us/Main.html

Ilya Petrov <email address hidden> a écrit : i have same laptop and i`m confirming. ubuntu 7.04, latst kernel

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2.6.20-16-generic corrects the issue on my HP 510 ;)

Have you tried using i8042.noaux?

thanks
chuck

This was fixed in main kernel tree, I use on my HP 500 RQ260AA
2.6.22-rc4(pure) -works
2.6.22.2(vserver patched) -works

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT BUT I FIXED THE PROBLEM

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This was fixed in main kernel tree, I use on my HP 500 RQ260AA
2.6.22-rc4(pure) -works
2.6.22.2(vserver patched) -works

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The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.17 Edgy Eft kernel task.