Major (hardware) breakage upon updating to 2.6.34

gw · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 215

Hi,

a couple of important things stopped working for me when I updated my laptop to 2.6.34

1) cdrom drive is no longer useable; I changed nothing in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules. There are no more cdrom,dvd links in /dev

2) laptop is a LOT hotter than before; average cpu temp is now about 55 to 60 degree was about 43 before

3) synaptics/alps touchpad is left with only the most basic (mouse) functionality; again I didn't touch the config file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi. In particular all functionality of using the touchpad (not the buttons) to "click" on links in firefox disappeared. I can only use it to manoeuvre the mouse pointer.

Any hints to get functionality back in one of these issues?

Thanks

gw

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Which were your upgrade steps, did you use oldconfig? Previous kernel?

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Frankly, it looks like you're looking in the wrong direction.
What are your versions of udev and xorg-server ?

gw · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 215

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:31 am Post subject:

Probably make oldconfig broke it for you, I'd try configuring from scratch.

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:37 am Post subject:

For that, run that command :

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

As I said, wrong direction.
cdrom part is most likely incomplete libata migration,
>=xorg-server-1.8.0 uses udev, not hal, by default (so, most likely,
your touchpad uses now evdev driver, instead of symantics,
as you've failed to set it up correctly).