On Wed 2009-02-04 19:15:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > A MSI Wind (100) netbook landed on my desk with the comment "touchpad > doesn't work in Linux but works in XP". > > It turns out that there are a 2 separate issues with this netbook that > needed fixing > > 1) The touchpad requires the equivalent of "i8042.reset", which resets > the controller before probing. (This is done via a DMI quirk in patch > 2/2) > > 2) About half the time, the reset will fail the first time. In the > current code, this is fatal and then also disables the keyboard in > addition to the touchpad. Ungood. Patch 1 makes the kernel retry the > reset upto five times before giving up (it seems the 2nd or 3rd time > succeed for me), and also adds an option to not make such a failure > fatal to the keyboard. > > I don't think this is a regression, but it is pretty nasty behavior > (the machine is useless without) so it could be a 2.6.29 candidate... Well, that beast was selling with linux preloaded, no? Or was it another msi wind? In such case I'd expect old kernel to work... or maybe some reasonable workaround somewhere... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
