Re: appletouch regression

From: Justin Mattock
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 13:29:51 EST


On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/10/18 Sven Anders <anders@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Steven Noonan schrieb:
>>> It seems that the appletouch driver is (sporadically) not detecting my
>>> Apple Trackpad anymore on Linus' current tree (2.6.27-05577-g0cfd810).
>>> When it is misbehaving, it doesn't have any /dev/input/event* entry
>>> that corresponds to the input from appletouch, and dmesg -should- show
>>> the following, as 2.6.27.1 does, but does not:
>>>
>>> appletouch: Geyser mode initialized.
>>> input: appletouch as /class/input/input4
>>> usbcore: registered new interface driver appletouch
>>> appletouch: 17" model detected
>>>
>>> On the current tree, occasionally all I get is:
>>>
>>> usbcore: registered new interface driver appletouch
>>>
>>> It's unfortunately a touchy issue, as it only -occasionally- happens.
>>> A bisection will be a pain in the butt, but I'm starting it right now
>>> anyway.
>>
>> Hmm, strange...
>>
>> I didn't change anything in the initialization routines. But I will take a look
>> into the changes, if something is missing or wrong...
>>
>
> I am pretty sure the two patches recently submitted by you are not
> guilty (I tried reverting both of them, which had no effect).
>
> Still working on the git-bisect. Fell asleep in the middle of it last night. O.o
>
> - Steven
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I too have a lifeless apple touchpad,
not sure when this started,due to never really using
it unless I'm in a remote location.

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Justin P. Mattock
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