[PATCH 0/1] [Jaunty] LP#317270 -- fix Synaptics touchpad resume

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Some systems with newer Synaptics touchpads have been exhibiting total
> touchpad failure following resume on Linux, but functioning correctly on
> other OSs.  Serial analysis has shown that this is caused by a lack of
> a device reset on resume in Linux.  The following patch adds this reset
> to the Synaptics driver.
> 
> It is expected that this should be safe for all Synaptics devices old and
> new as the other OSs have always used this method of reset.  Therefore we
> enable this new functionality by default.  We also provide a new module
> option to disable it, and hint as to its name in the dmesg, should anyone
> see issues.  By enabling this now for the beta cycle we should have time
> to shake out any regressions this might cause.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: psmouse/synaptics: ensure we reset the device on
>     resume
> 
>  drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 

ACK - its a bit surprising that upstream has not encountered this issue.
Do you plan to submit this as a stable update?

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com