Re: Touchpad errors

From: Dmitrij Bogush
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 17:02:26 EST


>Acer laptops are notorious for buggy SMM implementations that disable
>interrupts for many timer ticks. Does it work any better with HZ=100?

Maybe, but I do not see any difference between 100 and 1000 hz on 2.6.13-rc5.
With 2.6.13(from rc4) I do not get "crazy jumps" like in 2.6.12 or
later, only freezes for 1 second.

> You may try to talk to ACPI people; also I recommend setting battery
> polling interval to something sane, like 1 minute, and make sure your
> tool does not touch "info" file - that should help a bit.

Where can I find "ACPI people" ?

Thanks.
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