[gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[marco restelli]

Hallo!
    I'm trying to install Gentoo on an hp dv5000us, amd64.
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 followed the instructions in
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad
with the following configuration:
kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r5
synaptics-0.14.4-r2
evdev and psmouse compiled as modules, loaded in /etc/conf.d/local.start
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7

The output of dsmesg:
...
GSI 20 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
ndiswrapper: using irq 209
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:a5:7c:c2:c0 using driver
bcmwl5, 14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK;
AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x45/0xc9
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please
expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
for details.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 918 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.23.7 [Mar  6 2006] on minor 0
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched.
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 5 bytes away.

I've tried the solutions suggested at
http://www.simons.fi/touchpad.html
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/
with no success.

Any suggestion?

Thank you!
Marco
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Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[Richard Fish]

On 6/17/06, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com> 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
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Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[marco restelli]

On 6/21/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 6/17/06, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com> 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
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>
>

Hi Richard,
      thank you for the suggustions, but it does not work.
Those two errors are still present, for whatever choice
of the clock option :-(

Marco
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Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[Richard Fish]

On 6/22/06, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>       thank you for the suggustions, but it does not work.
> Those two errors are still present, for whatever choice
> of the clock option :-(

Hmm, darn.  It still looks to me like a problem with your interrupt
controller.  Unfortunately I don't know your hardware well enough to
advise any further.  You might try the gentoo-amd64 list.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

[marco restelli]

Hi list,
     upgrading to the 2.6.16 kernel solved the problem :-)

Best
     Marco


On 6/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 6/22/06, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >       thank you for the suggustions, but it does not work.
> > Those two errors are still present, for whatever choice
> > of the clock option :-(
>
> Hmm, darn.  It still looks to me like a problem with your interrupt
> controller.  Unfortunately I don't know your hardware well enough to
> advise any further.  You might try the gentoo-amd64 list.
>
> -Richard
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>
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