Re: [ACPI-sppt] ACPI patch

I can confirm that the same config in 2.4.21 with the patches versus
2.4.22 with the same config and patches makes a difference for the
touchpad. Not only in X, but in gpm, the mouse works in 2.4.21 where it
doesn't in 2.4.22. Something happened which obviously bugs out the psaux
touchpad. Bummer I can't help more. But I'll test anything!

Luca Capello in message Re: [ACPI-sppt] ACPI patch (Sun, 09/28 22:51):

> Hello,
> 
> on 25/09/2003 19.30, Luca Capello wrote:
> >I remembered why I continued using 2.4.21: I installed the patched 
> >2.4.22 and all went ok, but at reboot, I can't use not my keyboard 
> >neither my touchpad and I didn't change anything in the .config... So, I 
> >came back to 2.4.21 with the patch from Micha ;-)
> Ok, after the mail from Jo?o I attached, I found the real problem about 
> kernel 2.4.22. If I disable the touchpad from the XF86Config-4, I can 
> use GNOME 2.2/XFree86 4.3, but, obviously, I don't have the touchpad and 
> this is a problem, because I use quite always it with my notebook. The 
> .config (http://luca.pca.it/projects/asus/linux-2.4.21-20030925.config) 
> is the same as 2.4.21, where I don't have this problem. Btw, I've the 
> same problem on kernels 2.5/2.6 and even there the .config is the same. 
> So, I can't track the problem.
> 
> About the mail I attached, I never tried a not-pacthed 2.4.22, but the 
> 2.5/2.6 kernels aren't patched, so I can affirm that the problem isn't 
> related to ACPI patches.
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca

> From: Jo?o Cardoso <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Debian GNU/Linux] SuSE-8.2 on ASUS M3410C
> Organization: DEEC/FEUP
> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been following the Asus threads in acpi-support and  acpi-devel, as I 
> also have a M3N and suffer from the same acpi problems.
> 
> I don't post to the mailing lists, as I'm not subscribed to them.
> 
> After applying the acpi patch to 2.4.22, plus Robert's exfldio.c.patch, 
> everything seems to work OK, including the small bug you report about 
> keyboard response when the fan starts working.
> 
> But I have another problem: the synaptic touchpad just don't work using the 
> same XF86 configuration file that I use with the normal 2.4.20-SuSE-8.2 based 
> kernel. In that configuration file I use simultaneously an Asus-USB optical 
> mouse and the synaptic touchpad driver, and both work (at the same time) OK.
> 
> With the new 2.4.22 kernel+patches I have to remove the synaptic driver from 
> the configuration file, as X freezes the screen -- I must reboot.
> Is this the problem you report when you say why you keep working with 2.4.21? 
> Does this problem occurs even on an un-patched 2.4.22?
> 
> Thanks a lot for all the information on your page,
> 
> Joao
> 
> PS-I've been working with apm, disabling acpi, and the BIOS turns the fan 
> on/off OK; as the 5 hour battery is enough for a working day I don't have 
> problems, as I don't miss the lack of sound.
> 



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