On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:18:24PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > I have an Asus L4500R (L4R) laptop and am using the Linux kernel > 2.6.8.1 with manual patches to upgrade asus_acpi.c to v0.29 and to fix > the trivial ALSA atiixp.c bug[1]. I am using Debian Sid with XFree86 > 4.3.0 and compiled the kernel with GCC 3.3.4. > > I am having problems getting my TouchPad to work with Linux. I know > the hardware isn't broken: it works as advertised with the bundled > Microsoft Windows XP Home (which, of course, I do not want to use). > Linux detects my mouse "properly" as a generic ImPS/2, which it > supposedly is according to another L4500R owner[2], from dmesg:
I rebuilt the same kernel sources, but this time disabled ACPI completely (more details on why in a bit) and recompiled with GCC 2.95.4 and my TouchPad works perfectly. Even the wheel works fine! And what's more, I can use both the TouchPad and my USB mouse at the same time. Don't ask why, but it's cool. I disabled ACPI because I noticed that the acpid kernel process was regularly eating up quite a bit of CPU (40% - 60%), and didn't seem to be giving it up to processes like gcc, which sucks. What's more, my "manually patched" kernel to upgrade acpi4asus to 0.29 messed up things like brightness control, and I couldn't change the mled and wled statuses using the proc interface. Oh well. I'm waiting for the next kernel to come with the newer acpi4asus. If things still don't work when that happens I'll send feedback to the developers to help get things fixed. In the meantime I'm quite happy with my Asus L4500R. TouchPad works for when I don't have space to use my USB mouse, shutdown works fine, brightness control works, LAN and WLAN work. It would be cool if the WinModem was supported, but it's not that urgent. Same goes for suspend to disk. I haven't tested video output yet, though. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
