Re: [ACPI-sppt] ACPI patch

Hey Luca - 

I just tried your patch with a 2.4.22 source tree. Hunk #1 against
Config.in says it's already patched. The other two went through just
fine. However, that combination brought on the touchpad problems and
everything seems great except X crashes when it tries to run for me. 

Using the synaptics driver, which I've never used anyway, doesn't solve
the problem. 

Anyhow, sounds like things work well with 2.4.21. I wonder what the
screwy added element is. I've noticed this same behaviour in 2.6 kernels
as well as I mentioned earlier. 
-l

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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