Re: [PATCH] Reset ps/2 port should psmouse_probe fail before retrying

["Peter M. Petrakis" <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>]

This issue only occurs on resume, boot is fine. It is indeed
a multitouch. It doesn't have the $OTHER_OS installed but it
could if necessary. 

Peter

On 04/21/2010 01:10 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Peter M. Petrakis wrote:
>> The laptop is a Dell "yet to be officially released" laptop,
>> the touchpad reports itself as:
>>
>> Apr 21 11:24:05 ubuntu-laptop kernel: [  983.174813]
>> input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14
> 
> Umm, Synaptics but not using SynPS protocol. Some users will not be
> happy... Is it after cold boot or resume? Also, is it a multiouch model
> (does the box have the $OTHER_OS on it)?
> 
>>
>> I didn't find any additional attributes in sysfs that could give me
>> the fw revision or model. It doesn't show up in dmidecode either.
>>
>> With regards to retrying the probe... which resume path? psmouse
>> currently doesn't have one. Thanks.
> 
> 
> That'd be "reconnect" in serio speak, so you need to look into
> psmouse_reconnect().
>