hello,

I got a toshiba A30-901 laptop that is feeted with an alps touchpad.

The fact is that I it is not detected by my Debian Sarge (2.6.8.2 kernel)

With the 2.6.8.1 kernel, it works with a special configuration and the i8042.nomux kernel argument. But I don't know which kernel .config parameter make it work : with the standard kernel configuration, it doesn't work.

Recently I downloaded the 2.6.11.3 kernel. But it unpossible to make it work with it.
My keyboard is only detected when the kernel is loaded and when I pull the MAJ key. On this event I got this message "input: AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard on isa0060/serio0". And I can make use of my keyboard only after this operation.
In the /proc/bus/input/devices I never find my alps touchpad, but only the keyboard.
With the 2.6.8.1 kernel, I don't need to do this operation.

I tried severals differents 2.6.11.3 kernel configuration by comparing my .config file with the 2.6.8.1 .config file.
I tried also differents kernel argument at boot time.
But I never had the good configuration between all those parameters.
I wanted to try the patchs for 2.6.11 kernels, but they only works until your touchpad is detected.

So I hope that someone here will be able to give me some information on this tricky thing that I can't catch.

Thanks, Excuse me for my pitty english.
MARC