From: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
To: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
Cc: jlee@novell.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Acer-WMI disables touchpad and other issues
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:25:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347564343.705.28.camel@linux-s257.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5051FB6F.508@gnat.ca>
於 四,2012-09-13 於 09:27 -0600,Nathanael D. Noblet 提到:
> So far I've added the options acer-wmi ec_raw_mode=1 to a modprobe.d
> conf file. Looking at /sys/modules/acer_wmi/parameters/ec_raw_mode
> contains a Y. The mousepad remains unresponsive on boot prior to a
> Fn+F7. I've added options acer_wmi ec_raw_mode=1 (note the acer_wmi vs
> acer-wmi) simply because the sysmodule was also underscore. There is no
> difference, the module parameter is recorded as Y and the mousepad still
> does not work on boot.
>
> I will provide the other requested information soon.
Thanks for your testing, then we need to see DSDT and acpi debug log
when load acer-wmi.
Thanks
Joey Lee
>
> On 09/13/2012 04:05 AM, joeyli wrote:
> > Hi Nathanael,
> >
> > 於 三,2012-09-12 於 22:35 -0600,Nathanael D. Noblet 提到:
> >> On 08/15/2012 10:45 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One (model A0275-0691). It has an
> >>> elantech touchpad. As detailed in this bug:
> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848270 the acer-wmi driver
> >>> has two issues on this device.
> >>>
> >>> #1) It is sending TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE and simultaneously changing state
> >>> #2) It disables the touchpad at init
> >>
> >> So I tested the patch provided here.
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848270
> >>
> >> It definitely allows the Fn+F7 key combo to toggle the use of the
> >> mousepad. Unfortunately the mousepad comes up disabled and is very much
> >> confusing the users using the device. Is there somewhere I should look
> >> for what is causing that? I don't mind helping to debug the issue at all
> >> I just don't know where to start.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >
> > Please try 'ec_raw_mode=1' acer-wmi parameter to avoid acer-wmi run
> > launch manager mode. Run the following statement through root and reboot
> > system:
> > # echo "options acer-wmi ec_raw_mode=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf
> >
> >
> > On the other hand,
> > I checked your dmideocde on brc#848720, the 0x82 is the RIGHT acpi code
> > to you for touchpad_toggle key, that means acer-wmi should emit
> > KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE to userland. There have another thing also listen
> > the KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE and do the change. I checked the
> > gnome-settings-daemon, it just show up OSD but didn't change touchpad
> > status.
> >
> > Could you please help provide the following information?
> > + please attach acpidump:
> > # acpidump > acpidump.dat
> > + please help to capture acpi debug log:
> > + please remove ec_raw_mode=1 first.
> > + check your kernel parameter need enable: 'CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y'
> > + please add the following kernel parameter and reboot system:
> > acpi.debug_level=0x0000000F acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff log_buf_len=5M
> > + after system reboot, please press Fn+F11 (touchpad toggle key) a couple of times.
> > + please attach on dmesg log.
> >
> > For your backlight function key problem, please file another bug on
> > bugzilla.kernel.org.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Joey Lee
> >
> >
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 16:45 Acer-WMI disables touchpad and other issues Nathanael D. Noblet
2012-08-16 3:33 ` joeyli
2012-09-13 4:35 ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2012-09-13 10:05 ` joeyli
2012-09-13 15:27 ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2012-09-13 19:25 ` joeyli [this message]
2012-09-13 15:47 ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2012-09-13 16:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-13 18:49 ` joeyli
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