8.04: Non-responsive touchpad on Penryn MacBook Pro

[seaward]

I'm getting no response from the touchpad on my MacBook Pro [Penryn, Feb 2008] using the Synaptics Driver.

I've got the Input Device set up in my xorg.conf, including the "SHMConfig" "True" option, yet gsynaptics tells me I still need to add the line.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is there another driver I should be aware of?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[cyberdork33]

I'm getting no response from the touchpad on my MacBook Pro [Penryn, Feb 2008] using the Synaptics Driver.

I've got the Input Device set up in my xorg.conf, including the "SHMConfig" "True" option, yet gsynaptics tells me I still need to add the line.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is there another driver I should be aware of?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

there is no driver for the multitouch stuff yet.

Check this daemon out:
http://tannewt.org/touch/

[seaward]

Cheers for the pointer, cyberdork. I'd read about this elsewhere, but I'm not looking to engage Multitouch features just yet, simply being able to use the trackpad would be a start. Booting into the 8.04 LiveCD, for example, renders the trackpad workable, however I literally get no response from it when running my Ubuntu installtion.

I had a look in my Xorg.0.log and confirmed what I thought might be happening: the Synaptics driver is refusing to load for whatever reason. Here are the relevant lines:

(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 22 nodes)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Touchpad"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

I'm going to try uninstalling and then reinstalling the driver and see if that helps.

EDIT: Reinstalling xorg synaptics driver didn't do anything. Any other suggestions for what I could try?

[cyberdork33]

curious, is appletouch loaded?

[seaward]

As far as I'm aware, no. I've checked through dmesg and my xorg.0.log and can find no mention of appletouch. I've been googling around the subject but can't find any definitive posts on how to go about installing it either. What's the correct method?

[cyberdork33]

As far as I'm aware, no. I've checked through dmesg and my xorg.0.log and can find no mention of appletouch. I've been googling around the subject but can't find any definitive posts on how to go about installing it either. What's the correct method?

It is part of the kernel and is the low-level hardware interface for the touchpad. you can see if it is loaded with lsmod and if not, try

sudo modprobe appletouch

then try loading synaptics again.