On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Mitch, >> >> Just been testing q2e19a and the self test mode is still buggy. I >> am testing with a G1G1 laptop with Alps trackpad. >> Seen several different things happen. >> >> I ran the complete self test a couple of times by cold booting >> with the left rocker held down. >> 1.) One time when it went into the mouse test phase as soon as I >> touched the right hand section of the touchpad it left the mouse >> test and went to the next test. > > That could be explained by a queued-up keyboard character causing > the test to exit early - like if you typed more than one character > when trying to exit the display test early. I guess I should flush > the input queue when starting the mouse test. > >> >> 2.) When I ran test mouse from the ofw prompt the screen was left >> black until I hit enter a few times. > > That's sort of intentional, so you can see the last state of the > screen. That has some diagnostic value, but maybe not enough to > justify the potential confusion. > >> >> 3.) Another problem is when you run 'test mouse' from the ofw >> prompt the screen the following may occur: >> "Pressure: 10 >> Touchpad protocol botched > > This one I haven't seen. I tried to reproduce it on three > different machines to no avail. The dual-mode touchpad protocol is > somewhat twitchy, especially as regards switching back and forth > between resistive and capacitive mode. The Linux driver has gone > through any number of revisions in hopes of stabilizing the > behavior, with only partial success. > > In light of the fact that we're about to switch to new touchpads, > I'm inclined to let this one slide. I'm not sure it's the best use > of my time to try and beat this particular dead horse.
I suggest that item 3. be release noted then. By the way if an Alps trackpad goes bad will it be possible to swap in a Synaptics track pad or is that physically impossible > >> >> mouse selftest failed. Return code = -1 >> ok >> >> Touchpad test. Both buttons clears screen. Type a key to exit." >> >> I can repeat number 3 just by running finger around trackpad while >> varying pressure. >> >> On Oct 5, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote: >> >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~wmb/q2e19a.rom is a test build that >>> purports to fix http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8451#comment:7 (This >>> Time For Sure !) >>> >>> If anybody is just itching to test a bleeding edge OFW, this is >>> your chance. (Okay, so it's not really all that bleeding. It's >>> not too different from Q2E18 which is going in the G1G1V2 build.) >> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel