RE: [XFree86] Laptop touchpad and XFree86 4.3.0[GFI-T61361-3F2046730DCE4E29]

2003-07-25 Thread Egbert Eich 
Williams, Victor writes:
  My experience is that a LOT of things in XFree86 4.3.0 are either broke, or
  not working at all.  A perfect example of this would be the RandR (resize
  and rotate) support for every driver that previously supported it correctly
  in 4.2.1.  As of 4.3.0, none of that works anymore.

This is BS.
RandR was not part of 4.2.1 therefore it could not have been working 
there.

If there are a 'LOT' of things broken in 4.3.0 it is because people 
don't bother to test before the release. 
The mouse code has been around for a while before 4.3 was cut.
If people don't test they should have no reason to complain later.

  
  I would suggest going back to 4.2.0 and patching to 4.2.1 and see if it
  corrects your issues.  If so, use 4.2.x...it will be easier than trying to
  diagnose all the problems with 4.3.0.
  

I've placed some information on mouse input driver problems on:

http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org/mouse_2fKnownIssues

Egbert.
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RE: [XFree86] Laptop touchpad and XFree86 4.3.0[GFI-T61361-3F2046730DCE4E29]

2003-07-24 Thread Williams, Victor 
Title: RE: [XFree86] Laptop touchpad and XFree86 4.3.0[GFI-T61361-3F2046730DCE4E29]





My experience is that a LOT of things in XFree86 4.3.0 are either broke, or not working at all. A perfect example of this would be the RandR (resize and rotate) support for every driver that previously supported it correctly in 4.2.1. As of 4.3.0, none of that works anymore.

I would suggest going back to 4.2.0 and patching to 4.2.1 and see if it corrects your issues. If so, use 4.2.x...it will be easier than trying to diagnose all the problems with 4.3.0.


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-Original Message-
From: Peter Wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [XFree86] Laptop touchpad and XFree86 4.3.0[GFI-T61361-3F2046730DCE4E29]



Hi,
I recently upgraded my Linux system to Pink Tie 9
(basically Red Hat without the trademark icons). This
has kernel 2.4.20, XFree86 4.3.0. My laptop is a
Compaq Armada E500 which has a touchpad (Synaptics???).
This worked perfectly well under my previous system which
was XFree86 4.2.1, using the standard mouse driver
on /dev/psaux using protocol PS/2. However, the latest
XFree has problems... On startup, resume from suspend,
or whenever switching to the X virtual terminal from
another, the touchpad and keyboard become unresponsive
and the Num Lock/Caps Lock indicator lights flash for
half a minute or so... this seems to be correlated with messages in /var/log/messages:


Jul 23 20:39:49 ceiriog1 kernel: Keyboard timed out[1]
Jul 23 20:41:44 ceiriog1 last message repeated 10 times


Eventually the X screen appears and the windows redraw,
but sometimes even so the pointer is frozen.


I have also tried using the synaptics driver for
the mouse, but this fails even to initialize the device.
I am not using gpm, the mouse is on /dev/psaux, and
the utilities such as tpconfig and test-pad in the synaptics driver package seem to work without problems.


What am I doing wrong - or do I have a hardware incompatibility? I attach my XF86Config and log files.
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Peter Wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]