From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FtBH9-0000k3-AF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:34:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5LMW8pq010234; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:32:08 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5LMPuLU001841 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:25:57 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id t4so203297wxc for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:25:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=QFel1BL73B9EZr8MfFUxVkNhHA+PPOMYpxvRCbBafvKIIvGNwCRFVoWRVj0H+koCD2QJkBjvQLiDKQOXGO4/CVx87jootqVwu9GUMdjUtg5vPzC3waXYhlycQRhj5fZglexUTxCbFUeImjLy5DHMJM7oTCxMyrc7GWZCX71AFWA= Received: by 10.70.16.4 with SMTP id 4mr1885925wxp; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.91.13 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640606211525l194d974fo1b7625c5b2d673c5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:25:56 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: e3b46e662d2a3731 X-Archives-Salt: 909d461b-8794-4427-ba6e-90ca18e3a0a0 X-Archives-Hash: 4f520a5b5fb6192b132ffea2c52dfb66 On 6/17/06, marco restelli wrote: > Everything works fine, but the touchpad. > Indeed I have all the advanced features working: double click, > scroll ... but using the touchpad when the CPU load is hight > the mouse starts jumping around and clicking everywhere. I see two problems in your dmesg output: > warning: many lost ticks. > Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts > rip __do_softirq+0x45/0xc9 Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, particularly the clock= option. clock=pmtmr might be the best option here...although I'm not sure it applies to amd64. > input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1 > APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) Booting with noapic (again, see kernel-parameters.txt) should help. It might also clear up the time issue above. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list