Re: Synaptics problems in -mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 19:02:05 EST


Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think it ACPI PM timer if you have it activated - I am having problems
> > with it myself but didn't have time to look closer. Could you try booting
> > with clock=tsc or clock=pit and see if it fixes the touchpad.
>
> clock=tsc appears to fix the problem.
> clock=pit no change.

So we've established that it is an interaction between the input code, the
ACPI PM time code and cpufreq, yes? That's a bit of a witches brew.

Does anyone know what aspect of the ACPI PM timer behaviour could cause
this?

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