Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753435AbWKFQsJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753442AbWKFQsJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:09 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:17932 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435AbWKFQsG (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tm0pltZ2ocHdE7LG/ey0QNA+P1wVs4cRm+QGycjnW9JeMCUprJsjmc//D1AE64KuhSZScMuI79tAsSHCYuLRamWbw+tXVcCMLScP1HAzJH0BneHQU+5yB0aICz0lFB+hS1xzx4FtZdXt+Fgl95HPPHtVHXkidoIkMCv4k1rS0L0= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:03 -0500 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Dave Neuer" Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH] i8042: remove polling timer (v6) Cc: LKML , "Andrew Morton" , "Vojtech Pavlik" In-Reply-To: <161717d50611060822w11e031ebra8f62d0fc5b02d69@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608232311.07599.dtor@insightbb.com> <161717d50610291520i5076901blf8bf253eba6148cc@mail.gmail.com> <200611030103.17913.dtor@insightbb.com> <161717d50611060822w11e031ebra8f62d0fc5b02d69@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 31 On 11/6/06, Dave Neuer wrote: > > As I said, I have had both keyboard and touchpad problems on this > laptop (formerly more of the former, lately more of the latter); > interestingly, after applying this patch I have had failures much less > frequently (multiple instances of several days w/out failure w/ the > laptop powered on continuously). Also interestingly, and > unfortunately, that may be coincidence; I've discovered a use case > that seems to reliably cause the touchpad to freeze up w/ or w/out the > patch applied (selecting multiple items in modified file list in > EasyTAG). Haven't looked into it yet, on the "hurts when I do this," > "then don't do that" theory, but when I have time to look at the > EasyTAG code and try to reason about what's happening, I will. > It would be interesting to see dmesg of reloading psmouse module after touchpad freezes: echo 1 > /sys/module/i8042/parameters/debug rmmod psmouse modprobe psmouse BTW, what video driver are you using? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/