On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks! :-) > > I have a Fujitsu Lifebook U series laptop running updated CentOS 6.4 > (64bit), and the touchpad doesn't work. It's a new laptop, the touchpad > works correctly in Fedora 18 Live (given the kernel parameters below), > no hardware problems. > > I searched the web all around, and it's a known issue for several > laptop models. The only solution, quoted everywhere, it is to append the > > i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux > > to the kernel parameters. The problem is that the latest CentOS6 kernel > (2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64) doesn't appear to recognize these. Or it > otherwise ignores them. I did append the parameters, but (unlike in > Fedora) the touchpad is still dead. > > This laptop is to be used by a noob user who needs a LTS distro and is > already accustomed to CentOS, so a more modern distro like Fedora or > Ubuntu is not an option. > > What can be done about this? Would a CentOSplus kernel work? It is > somehow too lousy to tell the client "The touchpad of your brand-new > laptop doesn't work because CentOS is too old, use an USB mouse > instead". > > Any advice appreciated. > > TIA, :-) > Marko Just did a quick check. The current CentOS kernel (centosplus kernel as well) seems to have code for i8042.nomux but not i8042.notimeout in linux/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c . You might want to give ELRepo's kernel-ml a try: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml It is the latest mainline kernel that runs on CentOS. Akemi