Sentelic touchpad

Introduction
The Sentelic touchpad comes with a couple of laptops/Netbooks They have recently released a driver for linux that will need patching the kernel. Note: From 2.6.32 the driver is included in the kernel

>= 2.6.32
From kernel 2.6.32 the driver is included in the kernel. Just include it.

< 2.6.32
Download the latest version of the driver at this address

Decompress Assume the drivers have been downloaded to /tmp

Copy the needed files

Patch the kernel The driver package comes with 4 patches that you can choose from. You will need to get to the kernel mouse directory to be able to patch the kernel.

2.6.28 Kernel - unofficial patch

Compile
Compile the kernel like usual.

Xorg
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Troubleshooting
If the touchpad doesnt work after boot, try adding i8042.reset=1 as a kernel parameter.

dmesg

 * 1) dmesg

Sentelic driver utilities
A daemon to dissable the touchpad while writing can be downloaded from http://int.ed.ntnu.no/fspd.tar

svn: https://int.ed.ntnu.no/svn/public/fspd