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Hi Arne, On Wednesday, 26 March 2003, Niels den Otter wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 March 2003, Arne Koewing wrote: > > I recently posted this to linux-kernel (with a different subject) I > > had included a wrong ptch there, i think this one is ok. > > > > As some people before I had the 'Dell trackpoint does not work' > > problem after upgrading to 2.5.XX: > > That was: > > > > the trackpoint of your dell won't work until: > > - hibernate and wake up the system again > > - plug in an external mouse (you may remove it immediately) > > > > it seems that dells hardware is disabling the trackpoint if you probed > > for the touchpad. A device reset after probing does help, but I've no > > idea how this would affect other synaptics touchpad devices although I > > think most devices will not complain about one extra reset. > > Thanks for making this patch available! It works really great for me > on my Dell Latitude C400. After a fresh boot of the Linux kernel both > the trackpoint and the touchpad now both work. I found that your patch has not found it's way to the 2.5 tree yet. Do you know the status of this? I still patch all my new kernels with your patch. Kind regards, Niels - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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