[gpm]Problem making my touchpad work

[Maier Gerfried]

Hello!

I have gpm in usee on all my computers and I am quite happy with it,
thats why I want to make gpm run on my notebook. Unfortunately there are
some problems with my touchpad:

It works without any problems using the -t ps2 option, but with this
option no touchpad-specific features are supplied. (moving along an
endge causes scrolling, droppint two fingers means "middle mouse button"
and so on).
When I tried to use the -t synps2 option I was disappointed. The
mouse-pointer did not move any more, instead of this many log-messages
are generated from gpm to the syslog, like:

Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: Invalid ACK in synps2 initialization
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali last message repeated 2 times
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: tossing PS/2 data:
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 28
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: AA
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 55
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 00
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali last message repeated 2 times
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: tossing PS/2 data:
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 0B
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: AA
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 55
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 00
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali last message repeated 2 times
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: tossing PS/2 data:
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: DC
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 38
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: DD
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: CC
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: 38
Oct 15 01:03:10 moali ./gpm[1250]: D3
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: tossing PS/2 data:
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: FA
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 18
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: E5
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 16
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 08
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 03
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: tossing PS/2 data:
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 2D
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: AA
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 55
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 16
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 08
Oct 15 01:03:11 moali ./gpm[1250]: 03

Is this just due to a misconfiguration of gpm or synps2 (I have not
generated the .conf-file yet) or is my touchpad not supported in
general?

The problem occurs with gpm 1.18 and 1.19.6.

Thanks a lot for your help.
Maier Gerfried