Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop

I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I can't seem to get the touchpad to work. I've read the laptop/mobile computing info, searched the mailing list, and gone to a couple of linux laptop sites - and from what I gather, there is really nothing special about a touchpad

Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop - update

I've done a boot -v - psm0 says: psm0: current command byte:0047 psm0: failed to reset the aux device I'm using a Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad Is there a patch to make this work? Is it possible to manually reset the aux device? I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I