cybervet Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Hi i got a macbook air clone netbook e-stary hy-118 with a synaptics touchpad, which is recognized as an alps, the result is that the correct drivers are not loaded and the I can't use it. So far I have found that in the id sequence it returns 0x02 instead of the expected 0x47 and that results in the touchpad not to be recognized as a synaptics. I tried to remove the ApplePS2Touchpad kext , and leave only the mouse kext that resulted in erratic motion in the cursor , jumping around , clicking left and right at the same time and finally cursor ending at the left bottom corner of the screen. At the same time the console register a message ApplePS2mouse :unexpected data received from PS2 controller. So far i tried voodoo, meklort and apple kexts but same results Any help will be greatly appreciated. PS: touchpad works fine under win 7 , xp, and ubuntu using the Synaptics drivers. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 use a mouse and go to your system preferences... under trackpad, look if it says anything OR "no trackpad found". Â I bet the latest version of voodoops2 kext will do the trick... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1624966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Have you tried with netbookinstaller? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1625454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 in sys prefs under trackpad it says no touchpad found, Concerning voodoo which version you are talking about , any link , so far i tried the 0.98 Thanks for your help cybervet Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1625481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 yeap I tried netbook installer but since it's based on meklort's kext I had the same results. For some odd reason this touchpad isn't recognized as a synaptics one (does not return 0x47 code but instead 0x02) and when it falls back to the normal mouse driver it does not function normally , it behaves erratically giving the console error ApplePS2mouse : unexpected data received from PS2 controller" . I went over the source code of ApplePS2Mouse.kext at www.opensource.apple.com/source and found the piece of code that logs the warning but unfortunately my coding skills are not up to date and can't figure out what triggers that warning. If someone can have a look up at the file and can explain what is causing this i would be grateful. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1625832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Just to add up when booting in ubuntu 10.10 it says synaptics touchpad mode 1 fw: 7.2, is there a tool in macosx that we can get some info concerning PS2 devices? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1626014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 ok let me rephrase the question , what kexts are responsible for PS/2 functionality , so far I know ApplePS2controller.kext , Nub.kext. Any other that i should check? Why the touchpad is not functioning correctly when the ApplePS2Mouse is used. Sorry for keep asking But so far I search all over the forums for some info, tried hundreds of kexts but no joy so far, and I feel sorry it's such a nice netbook and everything works except the touchpad. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1627224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 VoodooPS2controller.kext Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1627382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 dorhacker: tried the voodoops2controller.kext 0.98 it says synaptics driver loaded , alps trackpad bla bla bla, and I end up with a non functioning touchpad.....So if I understand correct it loads the alps driver while i have a synaptics touchpad..... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1628050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Update I want through synaptics touchpad pdf and I found out that my touchpad because it's not recognized as synaptics (because it returns 0x02 instead of 0x47) the driver is not loaded and instead it uses appleps2mouse.kext. It seems that the touchpad uses the mouse driver somehow in Absolute mode instead of Relative mode because i can see a difference depending on the pressure that been applied on the touchpad while on relative mode the z axis should not make any difference.That would explain also the erratic behavior and the console message that I am getting "ApplePS2Mouse : unexpected data received from PS2Controller" , since the stream of data in Absolute mode is 6 bytes which is different than what the mouse driver expects in relative mode. Now the question is how can I correct this? Any help will be greatly appreciated . Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1628545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 ok this thing will drive me crazy , after I tried any kext i could get my hands on with no luck I ended up changing the touchpad with onother synaptics one v 7.2 ,and again i get the same results . HELP i can't believe that i am the only one that I have this problem........ Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1634529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 use a usb mouse, and check your trackpad on your system preferences. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1634537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Well i am using a usb mouse since it's the only way i can move around , the problem is that thse touchpad (s) are not recognized at all and when the ps2mouse driver is loading they behave erratically and i get a message in the console: "Ps2mouse unexpected data received from ps2controller" Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1634779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybervet Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 use a usb mouse, and check your trackpad on your system preferences. when using the voodoops2controller the message i am getting when opening the prefpanel is no synaptics touchpad present. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1634780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambri Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 i have the exact same issue, my keyboard on my laptop works perfectly, usb mouse works, but my trackpad wont and it recognizes it as an alps glidepath...etc....i tried voodoo and multiple other kexts but no luck. have you gotten yours to work? anyone else have any info as to how to get this damn trackpad working??? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1671249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_co Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Same issue here. Someone could help? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p=1682341 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243979-synaptics-touchpad-not-recognized/#findComment-1682691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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