Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:03 -0500 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [RFT/PATCH] i8042: remove polling timer (v6) |
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On 11/6/06, Dave Neuer <mr.fred.smoothie@pobox.com> wrote: > > As I said, I have had both keyboard and touchpad problems on this > laptop (formerly more of the former, lately more of the latter); > interestingly, after applying this patch I have had failures much less > frequently (multiple instances of several days w/out failure w/ the > laptop powered on continuously). Also interestingly, and > unfortunately, that may be coincidence; I've discovered a use case > that seems to reliably cause the touchpad to freeze up w/ or w/out the > patch applied (selecting multiple items in modified file list in > EasyTAG). Haven't looked into it yet, on the "hurts when I do this," > "then don't do that" theory, but when I have time to look at the > EasyTAG code and try to reason about what's happening, I will. >
It would be interesting to see dmesg of reloading psmouse module after touchpad freezes:
echo 1 > /sys/module/i8042/parameters/debug rmmod psmouse modprobe psmouse
BTW, what video driver are you using?
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