Bug 131655

Summary:	Synapitcs touchpad on IBM Thinkpad t42p freezes all input
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Haakon Eriksen <haakon>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Haakon Eriksen 2005-10-31 20:25:42 UTC

I ordered an IBM Thinkpad t42p because the hardware was sertified with Novell SuSE Linux 9.3, thinking it would be an excellent hardware platform to try the evolved OpenSuSE 10.1 Alpha 2 from the 5 provided CDs. Thank you for documenting the hardware detection bug and the font cache update bug on opensuse.org! 

Unfortunately, I cannot use the Synaptics Touchpad. Detection and setup seems to be fine, yet if I use it for than a minute, mouse arrow movement stops and the keyboard is unaccessable. This happens using both GNOME and KDE. It effectively freezes all input. I've tried many times, and the only way sitting at the console is to hold down the power button till the laptop turns off. The t42p does not have a regular PS/2 slot, so I'll have to get a USB mouse before I can try another mouse.

Do you know a work-around? Which logs should I look in to find mouse errors?

Comment 1 Haakon Eriksen 2005-10-31 20:28:36 UTC

Sorry, should have been "for more than a minute" and "the keyboard is inaccessible".

Comment 2 Haakon Eriksen 2005-11-02 10:50:09 UTC

Here is the certification document at Novell, which led to my purchase of the IBM Thinkpad t42p. The only difference is another gigabyte of RAM, so I have 2 Gb.

http://developer.novell.com/yes/79715.htm

Comment 3 Haakon Eriksen 2005-11-04 10:32:52 UTC

I give up on this one, and will first try 10.0 on the t42p.

Comment 4 Haakon Eriksen 2005-11-07 10:40:45 UTC

I have now installed opensuse 10.0 GM, and want to report that there are no problems with the touchpad. Somewhere between 10.0 and 10.1 alpha2 something got broken.

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:33:58 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:35:38 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 7 Marcus Schaefer 2008-06-25 09:40:41 UTC

this is fixed

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:41:32 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:53:00 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(