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 -- [email protected] mailing list

