Re: Touchpad problems with latest kernels

Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-17T15:28:29Z

On 8/17/06, Luke Sharkey <lukesharkey@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > Seeing as Linux is less easily controlled with the keyboard compared
> >to
> > > MS-Windows,
> >
> >Careful, you are threading dangerous waters here ;)
>
> Well, I wasn't trying to be inflammatory. It's just that Microsoft seems to
> make such a big deal of how their OS can be controlled solely from keyboard.
>

I guess there is a difference as to what you call controlling. You
probably mean that in Windows is is easier to navigate GUI with
keyboard whereas I mean that in Linux or Unix you just start a
terminal program and do all necessary setup from within it (with
keyboard ;) )

> >Alt-F1 does it though
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> >Oh, another one... try booting with "ec_intr=0" on the kernel command line
> >to disable embedded controller interrupt mode.
>
> I tried this. Was this meant to cause a major improvement in mouse control?
> If there *was* a difference, it was only subtle. I'd have to boot in to
> the kernel with and without this option a few times to see whether it truly
> makes a difference or not.
>

Well, it was just a thing to try. On some boxes interrupt mode of EC
was reported to hurt mice, while on others there was no effect or even
was an improvement.

> >And finally, can I mples get a dmesg (or /var/log/messages) of boot with
> >"i8042.debug=1 log_buf_len=131072" please?
>
> Yes. Here is the output of dmesg with "i8042.debug=1 log_buf_len=131072"
> appended to the kernel line:
>

Hmm, don't see anything bad happening here.. Could you please send me
your /var/log/messages (still after booting with i8042.debug=1
log_buf_len=131072)? You should probably spare other people's
mailboxes and send it to me directly... Or put it on FTP somewhere.

Thanks!

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Dmitry