On 06/14/2016 11:58 PM, frantisek holop wrote:
> ropers, 14 Jun 2016 03:37:
>>> the acer travelmate b115-m is an el cheapo netbook
>>> with no moving parts if you stick an ssd in it.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the addition and dmesg. Do you know if all the Travelmate B115's
>> are fanless or only the M models, not MP or P? What about the B116's and
>> B117's? Actually, are all the Travelmate B's fanless?
> 
> well, it doesn't say on the website, does it? :]
> i think the biggest difference between MP and M was the
> multi-touch-screen...   i _think_ they are all fanless
> because of the CPU models, they are not that high end.
> but 116 and 117 are not bay trail but braswell if i am
> not mistaken, and i don't know the state of braswell on
> openbsd...
> 
>>> it suspends, resumes, most things work;
>>> the clickpad and the wifi being notable exceptions.
>>>
>>
>> Does this mean that despite dmesg recognition, the pms0 device somehow does
>> not work at all (=need external mouse), or does this mean just
>> fancy-schmancy gesturing support won't work (limiting the pad to working
>> like a conventional trackpad)?
> 
> the bios has to clickpad settings: basic/advanced.  i
> could not make it work reliably with either of these
> settings.  it seems to work sometimes but than it goes
> "crazy" and the mouse cursor runs around so fast, it is
> blurred.  so at the moment yes, i have to use an
> external mouse or vim :]
> 
>> Is the apparent absence of separate trackpad buttons (as per pics I
>> googled) an issue? Can the pad's lower parts work like buttons, or is it
>> only tap-to-click (which I seriously hate)?
> 
> unfortunately there are no hw buttons...  i'd also
> prefer that.  some linux users seem to had luck in
> setting up X.org for soft buttons, but i did not try
> as for a while setting the clickpad to emulate double
> click and middle click seemed to work.  then the
> crazyness came again :]
> 
> i have sent a bugreport and we'll see.

Your feedback in bugs@ would be appreciated. Can you exclude that
it's a hardware failure? Some people claim that various Acer models
are prone to such failures because the touchpads have a bad
electrical grounding.

> 
>> I see some models have a touchscreen. Does yours? Do all of them? (I'd
>> rather do without that.)
> 
> M's don't.
> 
>> Is the glossy screen annoying? (I prefer matte.)
> 
> the screen is as the price tag suggests..  not amazing
> but quite usable.
> 
> i am very happy with it because my requirements were:
> cheap, quiet, small, run openbsd w/o uefi (at the time
> there was none in openbsd).
> 
> -f

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