Sager 3880 Touchpad and Fedora

First off, I have to say I've had my 3880 for about 5 days now and I'm loving. It is a really great machine and pctorque took really good care of me.

I've basically got everything (hardware) I care about working. I did have to enable a few options in the kernel and recompile to get ACPI working. It was freezing at UDEV load, but could be bypassed by the boot option acpi=off. I couldn't care less about the modem or the camera. The only things left giving me trouble are the touchpad and the memory stick reader.

I feel like I must be missing something, but I can't seem to get the synaptics module loaded. I yum'ed every possible synaptics package I could fine, and I couldn't find any kernel options when I recompiled that seemed related, either.

This is what I find in Xorg.0.log


(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
...
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
...
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.4 (1404)
Synaptics Mouse no synaptics event device found (checked 12 nodes)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "5300"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
(**) Option "FingerLow" "25"
(**) Option "FingerHigh" "30"
(**) Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) Synaptics Mouse no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Mouse Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Mouse"

Any ideas on why it can't find the device?
I'm not sure why it reloads the module.
Also, the /dev/psaux line has only been added since the recompile (it was a kernel option). I've also tried /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0

Any help would be appreciated... I've GOT to turn off tapping!

Thought about it, the lspci could be helpful so:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go 6600] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19)
06:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
06:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
06:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)

Thanks for the suggestion b. I don't have a /dev/event in fedora, but I do have a /dev/input. I've actually played with this already, but maybe you can give me some more input (pardon the pun). Here's what I see:
crw------- 1 root root 13, 64 Mar 27 10:56 event0
crw------- 1 root root 13, 65 Mar 27 10:56 event1
crw------- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 27 10:56 mice
crw------- 1 root root 13, 32 Mar 27 10:56 mouse0

event0 is the keyboard. event1, mice, and mouse0 all read data (or at least print data) from the touchpad. event0's output is visually different from both mice and mouse0, and mice and mouse0 are visually very similar to each other. What I mean by that is: the chars printed from event0 are obviously different from those printed from the other 2.

I've already tried both mice and mouse0 as the parameter, and each had the same effect. I'll try event0 shortly (I can't restart X right now), but if anyone can tell me the difference in these devices, that might help me in figuring this out.

Thanks again!

What is the sound of one hand clapping....

This is what I get (minus the part for the keyboard):
So I guess the big question is ...........DRUM ROLL...........:
Why does Fedora think my touchpad is a logitech scroll mouse!

Thanks for all the input thus far. At least I'm ruling things out.
Jeff

Hope in one hand, s**t in the other...

That's exactly what I had found. I'd hoped someone else had some luck with this as it didn't seem like it should have been a big deal. I thought the elantech setup was possibly a generic synaptics (obviously not), considering it seemed most other sagers used the synaptics.

Thanks anyway guys.