Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-10-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On XO-1, we have a long painful history with synaptics and the EC, that's led to it being disabled. Instead we use the PS2 protocol. I just realised that we still do that on XO-1.5 on F11 and F14 builds, and can't find commentary from anyone trying anything different. Are there reasons to think S

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 October 2010 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On XO-1, we have a long painful history with synaptics and the EC, > that's led to it being disabled. Instead we use the PS2 protocol. > > I just realised that we still do that on XO-1.5 on F11 and F14 builds, > and can't find commentary from anyo

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-10-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Are there reasons to think Synaptics may now work? > > As far as I know there is still no explanation nor diagnosis for the > super-strange EC behaviour in this mode. I don't know if anyone has > tested if the same occurs on XO-1.5. Well, I

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-10-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 28 October 2010 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On XO-1, we have a long painful history with synaptics and the EC, >> that's led to it being disabled. Instead we use the PS2 protocol. >> >> I just realised that we still do that on XO-1.5

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-10-28 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 04:46:12AM +0800, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > IIRC (and it's been a long time, so don't trust me on this) the > Synaptics PS/2 protocol involves more 'context' than the standard > mouse packet format, making it more likely that dropped PS/2 bytes > could lead to desynchronizat

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-11-01 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > >> Are there reasons to think Synaptics may now work? > > > > As far as I know there is still no explanation nor diagnosis for the > > super-strange EC behaviour in this mode. I don't know if anyone has > > tested if the

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-11-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 11/01/2010 01:33 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > martin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > > >> Are there reasons to think Synaptics may now work? > > > > > > As far as I know there is still no explanation nor diagnosis for the > > > super-strange EC beh

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-11-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 10/28/2010 04:25 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> super-strange EC behaviour in this mode. I don't know if anyone has >> tested if the same occurs on XO-1.5. > > Well, I have now. > > Works very nicely, does not show any of the scary issues discussed in > #8901. It may still be spewing too much in