From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264910AbTL1BWj (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:22:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264905AbTL1BWj (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:22:39 -0500 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:62636 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264910AbTL1BWi (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:22:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:21:55 +0100 From: Tomas Szepe To: Andrew Morton Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, gcs@lsc.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, petero2@telia.com, john stultz Subject: Re: Synaptics problems in -mm1 Message-ID: <20031228012155.GA13923@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20031224095921.GA8147@lsc.hu> <200312271228.59192.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031227181120.GC10491@louise.pinerecords.com> <200312271323.22252.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031227183704.GD10491@louise.pinerecords.com> <20031227160053.11bcd12d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031227160053.11bcd12d.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dec-27 2003, Sat, 16:00 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > > > I think it ACPI PM timer if you have it activated - I am having problems > > > with it myself but didn't have time to look closer. Could you try booting > > > with clock=tsc or clock=pit and see if it fixes the touchpad. > > > > clock=tsc appears to fix the problem. > > clock=pit no change. > > So we've established that it is an interaction between the input code, the > ACPI PM time code and cpufreq, yes? That's a bit of a witches brew. Ok, I have verified this witch is not _that_ cunning. cpufreq actually seems to be innocent, I am able to reproduce the problem with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ unset. -- Tomas Szepe