Comment 5 for bug 671692

I read a suggestion elsewhere to add the options

i8042.reset i8042.nomux=1

to the kernel. The touchpad is now detected:

[ 48.284121] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x12a0b1, caps: 0xa04711/0xa04000/0x0
[ 48.345409] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6

xinput list

now lists the touchpad:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000 id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]

evtest /dev/input/event6

still produces no output