Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:41:57 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: various laptop nagles - any suggestions? (note: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 but applies to multiple kernels) |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:05:49 -0700 teunis <teunis@wintersgift.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Setting the internal clock to 100 Hz stablizes the laptop - and the > synaptics touchpad stops "crashing" (when "crashed" the pad reads out > all kinds of seemingly random values). I would suspect the driver > needs adjusting for the variable clock. Also - it's definitely nicer > on the laptop power use as far as I can tell - should this be in the > documentation?
So you're saying that CONFIG_NO_HZ breaks the touchpad?
> I'm very grateful that compact flash-based booting on a SATA system > works well. It hasn't been so reliable in 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 for IDE/CF > adaptors but I haven't yet solved why. (tested with various laptops)
hm. What goes wrong?
> resume from "suspend to ram" (ACPI S3 mode) - the keyboard and mouse do > not recover on 945G chipset. Note that otherwise the chipset works > well in 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 - and this is the first kernel that does work well).
So this might not be a new bug?
> LVM2 - when adding and removing physical volumes (again, on Compact > Flash cards via USB and Firewire adaptors) - it doesn't always remove > the volume properly (pvremove /dev/sda or equiv) from the device-mapper. > This leaves me unable to plug in another. I suspect this to be an > LVM2 problem (no hotplug?) rather than a compact flash or SCSI problem.
Can you identify an earlier kernel in which this worked OK?
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