From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756703AbZBJU0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:26:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754376AbZBJU0W (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:26:22 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51038 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754408AbZBJU0V (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:26:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:25:58 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Make the touchpad on the MSI Wind netbook work Message-ID: <20090210202558.GH1382@ucw.cz> References: <20090204191540.2d6abd87@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090204191540.2d6abd87@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 2009-02-04 19:15:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > A MSI Wind (100) netbook landed on my desk with the comment "touchpad > doesn't work in Linux but works in XP". > > It turns out that there are a 2 separate issues with this netbook that > needed fixing > > 1) The touchpad requires the equivalent of "i8042.reset", which resets > the controller before probing. (This is done via a DMI quirk in patch > 2/2) > > 2) About half the time, the reset will fail the first time. In the > current code, this is fatal and then also disables the keyboard in > addition to the touchpad. Ungood. Patch 1 makes the kernel retry the > reset upto five times before giving up (it seems the 2nd or 3rd time > succeed for me), and also adds an option to not make such a failure > fatal to the keyboard. > > I don't think this is a regression, but it is pretty nasty behavior > (the machine is useless without) so it could be a 2.6.29 candidate... Well, that beast was selling with linux preloaded, no? Or was it another msi wind? In such case I'd expect old kernel to work... or maybe some reasonable workaround somewhere... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html