Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Monday 31 January 2005 18:15, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hello, Peter:
> 
> The keyboard seems to work now, but I stepped on a very strange condition.
> Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became
> impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of
> modified files open :-)
> 
> The dmesg looked like this:
> 
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> 

1. Have you tried using external PS/2 mouse?
2. Have you plugged/unplugged into a port replicator?

2nd can be cured with psmouse.resetafter=3 (at least until we get
dock support in ACPI as pluggin/unplugging resets keyboard controller
and all devices without telling anyone), first one seems to be hopeless.
External device in Dells (at least in my Inspiron 8100) completely
shadows touchpad.

-- 
Dmitry