From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: Re: acpi breaking synaptics mouse support on Acer Travelmate 260 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030812185342.X89772@root.org> References: <20030812221751.GA2432@man.beta.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030812221751.GA2432-COUDbPDYh58xAGwisGp4zA@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Santiago Garcia Mantinan Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, petero2-zq6IREYz3ykAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > I recently (the 11th) posted on lkml a message with subject "2.6.0test3 > problems on Acer TravelMate 260 (ALSA,ACPIvsSynaptics,yenta)" on which I > commented all the major problems I was seing on this machine. > > The machine is a PIII mobile at 1GHz with intel chipset (i82801+i830M) 256 > Megs of RAM the mouse is a Synaptics touchpad. The problem is that the mouse > gets crazy (if using the normal mouse driver) or looses sync (if using the > synaptics driver). I have looked at the interrupts happening when one moves > the mouse and the number is much higher (from 3 to 10 times) in 2.6 compared > with 2.4, also when one stops moving the mouse in 2.6 the interrupts keep on > happening for half a second or so, while it stops inmediately in 2.4. I don't use linux but perhaps there is an interrupt sharing problem that appears when interrupts are routed differently (as they probably are between 2.4 and 2.6). -Nate ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01