LIfebook SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad fails after a few seconds

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I have a Lifebook AH45 with a touchpad that reads as SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad in lshw under Linux Mint and works like a champ, gestures and everything.

I had to add i8042.notimeout and i8043.nomux to the kernel line in GRUB in order to get it to be recognised, though.

Is it possible to get my Touchpad to work for more than 1-2 seconds after first touching it (it invariably freezes soon after first touching it, even if I touch it several minutes after booting into Haiku Beta5).

Everything else on this laptop just works, including most importantly, the Wifi!

Any help much appreciated.

I would include a listusb status line, or listdev line but it appears in neither.

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You can start by getting us a copy of the syslog (found in /var/log/syslog). We can see what our PS2 driver is trying to do, and then see if we need to implement something similar to “nomux” and “notimeout” from Linux (we currently don’t have any options for the PS/2 driver, it tries to autodetect everything).