Re: Synaptics Touchpad workaround for strange behavior after Sync loss (With Patch).

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 10:36:42 EST


On Sunday 11 January 2004 09:22 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:52:46PM +0100, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
> > > Hmmm... Now I get an "Reverted to legacy aux mode" after about
> > > every third resync of the driver, and sometimes odd and sometimes
> > > even numbers of sync losses...
> >
> > How often is that? X/minute. I do not expect many "reverted .."
> > messages, but if there is, then I believe the mux ver 1.1 has added
> > some extra error codes that we se as a revert.
>
> Or the BIOS powermanagement is touching the controller in a way the MUX
> mode doesn't like ...

Does booting with i8042.i8042_nomux=1 help? That should keep the MUX in
legacy mode. (well, depending on the kernel version it's either i8042.nomux
or i8042.i8042_nomux, -mm1 and my patches use former, in 2.6.1 vanilla uses
later form).

Dmitry
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