Re: Lenovo 3000 N100 i8042 problems

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 15:08:12 EST


On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:18:23PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:50:35PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >
> > > > I guess we could use System's product name to differentiate between
> > > > Cristopher's and Daniel's boards. Although I must admit it is the very
> > > > first time when I see a box that behaves better with active mux. DOes
> > > > Vista use active mux nowadays? Because if it is not then I bet there is
> > > > (or shortly will be) a BIOS update fixing legacy mode on Daniel's box.
> > >
> > > I guess so, yes.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, this might also be viewed as regression (we made
> > > Daniel's hardware behave worse with recent kernel than it did before), so
> > > I think we still would like to have this fixed. What about the patch
> > > below, adding the match on System's product name, as you suggested?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > I agree. Daniel, could you please try the patch to make sure it
> > restores the previous behavior for you and I will push it through.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> I'll test that Thursday as well; is there some quick way to determine
> whether you're using active mux or not?

Do "dmesg | grep serio".. If you see 4 AUX ports being created then
KBC is in active multiplexing mode.

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Dmitry
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