On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Neal Hogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I own an acer aspire one AOA110. It's running -current. Yesterday I > updated > > it to Oct19 snapshot, the previous one was from June 2011 (I know, I > kinda > > neglected this box for a long time). Everything run well with the update, > > but for one hassle with touchpad on CLI. It goes in the following way. At > > the boot time when local daemons are started appears the kernel msg: > > > > pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 7.2 > > > > Then, every time I touch the touchpad I get several times the following > > string from kernel: > > > > pms0: not in sync yet, discard input > > > > Of course I cannot use the mouse pointer on CLI anymore. It definitely > looks > > like a regression. > > > > The strange thing is that if I start X (where trackpad either does not > work > > or works for a bunch of seconds randomly) and then shut it down, then the > > pointer is back alive in CLI and no more messages are sent from the > kernel > > to CLI. Then starting X, again pointer gets stuck after a while in > graphic > > mode. Puzzling. A couple of times, after shutting down X also keyboard > > stopped working. It is not a hardware issue, under linux touchpad and > > keyboard work normally and with previous kernel they also did. > > > > In my config wsmoused -2 is started by rc.local. This is my dmesg: > > Any clues???? > > Thanks > > Pasha > > > > > > I had a similar situation where my trackpad tap worked and then didn't > (I have yet to figure out if that was by design), but then I looked at > synclient(1) and was able to config things back to "normal." CHECK IT > B4 U WRECK IT :-) > Hi Neal, thanks for the hint. Considering that in order to run synclient(1) I need X, I tried to run: X -configure from root in order to get a xorg.conf file to modify with SHMConfig "on" in [Input Devices] (I had always run X without a xorg.conf file on this machine, it always "just worked"). I then got the following errors: cannot open /dev/wsmouse [snip] Xorg is not able to detect your mouse Then trying the edited xorg.conf.new just leads to a nonmoving mouse. The output of synclient is just "Failed to connect to X server.". So, the problem persists and I cannot audit the synaptics device :( What to do next? Thanks in my .Xdefaults file, but synclient still complains "can't connect to X server".
