Newer laptops (Asus 2011+, Samsung 2010+, etc.) are using an Elantech touchpad that is not supported by the kernel in the 2.6.38 series. This results in psmouse falling back to detecting the pad as a Logitech PS/2 Wheel Mouse and no touchpad functions are available. There is a patched version of the psmouse drivers packaged at http://planet76.com/drivers/elantech/psmouse-elantech-v6.tar.bz2 adding support for the newer model. Additionally, there is a patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/681904/comments/64 to add the same support. This bug is tracked upstream at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27442 (whenever the kernel.org bugzilla is back) and was patched in kernel 3.0. However, given the stated release date for Mageia 2, it will be a bit before a kernel containing the support is available in a stable release. I would like to propose that the patch for the newer touchpad models be added so that these laptops can have better hardware support now.
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: (none) => kernel
Keywords: (none) => PATCHAssignee: bugsquad => tmb
Pinging. because nothing happened to this report since more than 3 months ago, and it still has the status NEW or REOPENED. @ Thomas Please set status to ASSIGNED if you think this bug was assigned correctly. If for work flow reasons you can't do that, then please put OK on the whiteboard instead.
CC: (none) => marja11
CC: (none) => marc.lattemann
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX