On 1 Apr 2002, Troy Schultz wrote: > My system is a Compaq Presario 2710 with a synaptics touchpad+4-way > scroll key, firmware version 5.8. I am running RedHat 7.2 with kernel > 2.4.17, ACPI version 20020225, and Xfree86 Version 4.2.0. Could you write what capacities the touchpad is detected as having. (Need option -D) > I start gpm using the following; > "daemon gpm -Rimps2 -t synps2 -m /dev/mouse" What happens if you only use the touchpad as a ps2 device (you need to reboot). > The problems I experience are as follows; > #1: access console using <CTRL><ALT><F1> and return to X using > <CTRL><ALT><F7> no response from X for either mouse or keybaord. This > happens 100% of the time with gpm 1.20.0 and only happened once with gpm > 1.19.6. After this I must restart the system. During this > /var/log/messages do not report anything out of the ordinary. I dont know what can causes this (my guess is the kernel keybd.c, or the daemon state). Can you do any SysRq? What happens if you start gpm with -D. (What happens if you do an additional startx?) > #2: after X screen saver is running and returns to normal X display, > loose mouse and sometime keyboard. This happens approx. 20% of the > time. After this if I ssh to the notebook and restart gpm things work > again. During this problem /var/log/messages reports "gpm[PID]: garbage > or tossing PS/2 data" > > #3: sometimes during normal running, usually related with a window > close, I also experience mouse and keyboard loss as in problem #2. Same > results and fix as #2 also. This is very probably because the touchpad is reset (after poweroff to save battery). Gpm does not detect when a device sends reset code. The garbage data is then ps2 protocol data. I dont understand why keyboard is effected though. Could you compile gpm with debug info, and next time it happens attach gdb to see where/what gpm is doing. Peter -- E-Mail: pebl@xxxxxxxxxx Real name: Peter Berg Larsen Where: Department of Computer Science, Copenhagen Uni., Denmark