Re: Synaptics Touchpad not detected in 2.6.13-rc2

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 16:45:10 EST


Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:24:43PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:02:38PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > This is the device (on a Vaio GR), which other info could I provide to
> > > > better diagnose the problem?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Could you please do "echo 1 > /sys/modules/i8042/parameters/debug";
> > > reload psmouse module and send me dmesg please?
> >
> > oh, it seems I'm not able to reproduce the error anymore!
> > I need some rest now, I'll try again tomorrow morning (I must be missing
> > something stupid right now) and report to you again.
>
> Could be the enabled debug is adding extra delay, making the problem
> impossible to reproduce. IIRC, we've seen this with an ALPS pad, too,
> Dmitry, right?
>

It was just a tad different - on one of the boxes alps-resume-typo
patch worked only with debug. 2 other boxes worked just fine without
debug.

I just can't see what could be wrong with ps2_adjust_timeout()...
It only reduces timeout to 100 ms when doing reset, exactly like
the old code did. Vojtech, can you see anything there?

--
Dmitry
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