Re: 2.5.7[123] PS/2 issues (synaptics mouse and laptop keyboard)

From: Brandon Low (lostlogic@gentoo.org)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 17:59:27 EST


Here are a couple of hopefully useful logs for the psmouse issues, I'll
get the keyboard issues as soon as I can get them to happen again :-\

--Brandon

On Thu, 06/26/03 at 23:15:32 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:46:23AM -0500, Brandon Low wrote:
> > Afternoon kernel-gurus :)
> >
> > Every 2.5 kernel since 2.5.70-mm9 that I have tried to use has failed to
> > work properly.
> > The primary issue is as mentioned elsewhere that the synaptics touchpad
> > simply doesn't work when psmouse is loaded. The psmouse_noext option
> > results in behaviour worse than the old default where no tap-to-click
> > works at all.
> >
> > However, there are other issues with the new ps/2 code, the keyboard
> > appears to get interrupt stormed at sometimes (or something) and I find
> > that letters either appear repeated (once for each keystroke after the
> > offending letter) or the keyboard response rate drops so low that I have
> > to type like a hunt-and-pecker in order to ensure that all of my
> > characters are captured.
> >
> > I am up for any troubleshooting projects you wish to send me on, but I
> > don't know enough about kernel drivers to hunt down these issues in the
> > ps/2 code myself.
>
> There is this nice and easy #define DEBUG in
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c. Reproduce the problem and send me the
> relevant part of the log. I'll look into it.
>
> --
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs, SuSE CR





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