linux-kernel - Re: [RFT/PATCH] i8042: remove polling timer (v6)

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Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:48:03 -0500
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"Dave Neuer" <mr.fred.smoothie@...ox.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Vojtech Pavlik" <vojtech@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH] i8042: remove polling timer (v6)

On 11/6/06, Dave Neuer <mr.fred.smoothie@...ox.com> 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
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