From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265022AbUGANEK (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:04:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265075AbUGANEK (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:04:10 -0400 Received: from smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.80]:9301 "HELO smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265022AbUGANED (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:04:03 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Marc Waeckerlin Subject: Re: Continue: psmouse.c - synaptics touchpad driver sync problem Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:03:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: laflipas@telefonica.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, t.hirsch@web.de, Vojtech Pavlik References: <20040630132305.98864.qmail@web81306.mail.yahoo.com> <200407011434.59340.Marc.Waeckerlin@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200407011434.59340.Marc.Waeckerlin@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407010804.00438.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 01 July 2004 07:34 am, Marc Waeckerlin wrote: > Dmitry: On synaptics page, I've seen that you've got tons of bugfixes for > 2.6.7 on http://www.geocities.com/dt_or/input/2_6_7. Do I need something from > there and is there a patch that contains all patches? > These are serio sysfs integration patches, they should not change the behavior of the system. > > > > > > Well, there are several things: > > > 1) Cursor hangs on system load with internal mousepad > > > (no external mouse connected) > > > > You mean when the system load is high? Yes, that can happen.. > > System load does not have to be really high, so it happens quite often. This > is very disturbing, like in MacOS 15 years ago! (That was one of the main > reasons for me not to use Mac, besides the fact that an application could > crash the whole system!) I think we now have a multitasking OS, haven't > we?!? :-( > > It is sometimes better, sometimes worse, but not really depending on system > load, it seems. Just a minute ago it was really bad. Strange. I usually feel some hesitation in cursor movement under high disk load - do you experience something like that? Although, now that I think about it, it's usually not the cursor itself but KDE is lagging to redraw... > > > > > 2) Cursor jumps a bit with internal mousepad > > > (no external mouse connected) > > > 3) Cursor jumps like crazy when moving external mouse > > > 4) Cursor randomly clicks when moving external mouse > > > > Has the external mouse ever worked in 2.6? Or is it always > > just randomly clickng stuff? Have you tried connecting another > > mouse? > > No and yes. At home I have a wheel mouse, at work a normal PS/2 mouse, both > with diffrent keyboards and both with the same problem. I never successfully > used an external mouse since I upgraded to SuSE 9.1 (Kernel 2.6). I had no > problems with kernel 2.4 and the same hardware. > Just out of curiosity, what happens when you pass psmouse.proto=bare to the kernel as a boot option (or put "options psmouse proto=bare" in your /etc/modprobe.conf file if psmouse is compiled as a module)? -- Dmitry