Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

[Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 07:59, Con Kolivas wrote:
> This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen
> <tony@atomide.com> and Tuukka Tikkanen <tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com>.
> Patch for 2.6.13-rc5

On a weird sidenote: my synaptics touchpad seems to not-like dyntick very much. 
When starting with a dyntick enabled kernel I get when psmouse.ko is loaded:

Aug  4 06:45:47 precious kernel: Synaptics claims to have extended capabilities, but I'm not able to read them.<3>Unable to initialize Synaptics hardware.
Aug  4 06:45:47 precious kernel: input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

subsequently, X fails to start too (touchpad is set as corepointer)

reloading the module right then and there solves the problem:

Aug  4 06:47:47 precious kernel: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9d48b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4006
Aug  4 06:47:47 precious kernel: input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

Also, booting the same (but non-patched) kernel gives me a clean boot:

Aug  4 06:56:42 precious kernel: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9d48b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4006
Aug  4 06:56:42 precious kernel: input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

This is constantly reproducable for me. I guess some timing issue somewhere?

Jan

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