Andy Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:44:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andy Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > My Vaio r505te comes up with an unusably slow touchpad if I allow the
> > > ALPS driver to drive it. It says
> > >
> > > > ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
> > > > Disabling hardware tapping
> > > > input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> > >
> > > and then the trackpad operates at about 1/8 the speed I've gotten used
> > > to. ... 2.6.11-rc4 ...
> >
> > Andy, could you please test 2.6.12-rc1 and let us know which problems
> > remain?
>
> With cvsbk rev 423b66b6oJOGN68OhmSrBFxxLOtIEA (rsynced Monday, it claims
> to be "2.6.12-rc1"), the situation is much improved. The AlpsPS/2
> driver recognizes the trackpad, tracking speed is back to normal, and
> tapping is turned on by default. (Drat, now I need to figure out how to
> turn that off again.)
Wonderful, thanks.
> The kernel output is a bit odd, though:
>
> [ 1200.254707] Adding 987988k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
> [ 1200.330453] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
> [ 1203.504154] SCSI subsystem initialized
> [ 1204.039053] Enabling hardware tapping
> [ 1204.099034] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
> [ 1204.266077] input: PS/2 Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> [ 1204.400583] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint on isa0060/serio1
> [ 1204.779799] sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [ 1206.183165] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
>
> Note how the "Enabling hardware tapping" message is several lines
> earlier than it seems it should be... I don't think I'm supposed to be
> tapping on my SCSI hardware.
>
> ... ah, I think I'm missing the "ALPS GlidePoint detected" message which
> I used to get. Without it, the "Enabling hardware tapping" message is a
> bit opaque.
Yes, alps_init() had a printk removed and now the output looks funny.
diff -puN drivers/input/mouse/alps.c~alps-printk-tidy drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
--- 25/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c~alps-printk-tidy 2005-03-21
22:23:46.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c 2005-03-21 22:23:53.000000000 -0800
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ int alps_init(struct psmouse *psmouse)
}
if (param[0] & 0x04) {
- printk(KERN_INFO " Enabling hardware tapping\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "alps.c: Enabling hardware tapping\n");
if (alps_tap_mode(psmouse, 1))
printk(KERN_WARNING "alps.c: Failed to enable hardware
tapping\n");
}
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