On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I own an acer aspire one AOA110. It's running -current. Yesterday I updated > it to Oct19 snapshot, the previous one was from June 2011 (I know, I kinda > neglected this box for a long time). Everything run well with the update, > but for one hassle with touchpad on CLI. It goes in the following way. At > the boot time when local daemons are started appears the kernel msg: > > pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 7.2 > > Then, every time I touch the touchpad I get several times the following > string from kernel: > > pms0: not in sync yet, discard input > > Of course I cannot use the mouse pointer on CLI anymore. It definitely looks > like a regression. > > The strange thing is that if I start X (where trackpad either does not work > or works for a bunch of seconds randomly) and then shut it down, then the > pointer is back alive in CLI and no more messages are sent from the kernel > to CLI. Then starting X, again pointer gets stuck after a while in graphic > mode. Puzzling. A couple of times, after shutting down X also keyboard > stopped working. It is not a hardware issue, under linux touchpad and > keyboard work normally and with previous kernel they also did. > > In my config wsmoused -2 is started by rc.local. This is my dmesg: > Any clues???? > Thanks > Pasha > >
I had a similar situation where my trackpad tap worked and then didn't (I have yet to figure out if that was by design), but then I looked at synclient(1) and was able to config things back to "normal." CHECK IT B4 U WRECK IT :-)
