[elrepo] touchpad driver availability?

[Ahmed]

On 08/21/2013 01:47 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 04:26 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 18/08/13 16:25, Ahmed wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i have HP Probook 4530s laptop. i am using centos 6.4. when i download
>>> and install centos 6 cd or dvd from a centos mirror. my touch pad
>>> working perfectly. when i run system update it updates the kernel and
>>> rest of the packages. My touch pad does not work. each time when i log
>>> in to the box i have to manually run gnome-mouse-properties to enable
>>> the touch pad. let me know that is there a touchpad driver available
>>> from elrepo to overcome this problem.
>>>
>>> old system specs
>>>
>>> uname -a>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri
>>> May 20
>>> 03:51:51 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Current system specs (after applying yum update)
>>>
>>> uname -a>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 
>>> SMP
>>> Tue Jul 16 23:51:20 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Ahmad Dawood
>>
>> Hi Ahmad,
>>
>> This doesn't sound like a driver issue to me as the driver works once
>> loaded - it sounds more like the driver is no longer being loaded as it
>> was originally.
>>
>> Anyway, to answer your question, no we don't have any updated touchpad
>> drivers you can try. I think you are going to have to do some more
>> digging to try to narrow down the problem before you can find the 
>> solution.
>>
>
> Ahmad, is it possible that you disabled your touchpad with Fn key, or 
> in BIOS?
>
> Also, try creating and login with brand new user, and see if that 
> makes any difference.
>
> Also try old kernel and see if it works on it.
>
>
1- i never changed touch pad setting with Fn key or BIOS.
2- By creating new user there is no change in the touchpad behaviour
3- Yeah, when i switched to old kernel, touchpad works fine again.

Thank you for taking time.