Re: [KJ] my first janitorial

2007-03-31 Thread Jaco Kroon
Pedram M wrote: How about this one? Am I doing it right now? If not, please try to explain more to me what I am doing wrong. You need a changelog entry (or explanation of what you're doing). You need a signed-off-by line and your patch needs to apply to the root of the kernel tree with -p1,

Re: [KJ] my first janitorial

2007-03-31 Thread Jaco Kroon
Pedram M wrote: How about this one? Am I doing it right now? If not, please try to explain more to me what I am doing wrong. You need a changelog entry (or explanation of what you're doing). You need a signed-off-by line and your patch needs to apply to the root of the kernel tree with -p1,

Re: sporadic "freezes" on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Mike Galbraith wrote: > At 10:33 PM 8/5/2005 +0200, you wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems >> deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. > > Given the number of kernels it freezes under, I'd say hardware. That

Re: sporadic freezes on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Mike Galbraith wrote: At 10:33 PM 8/5/2005 +0200, you wrote: Hello all, I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. Given the number of kernels it freezes under, I'd say hardware. That is what we

sporadic "freezes" on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all, I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. This particular box (specs lower down) just freezes up sporadically when in Linux. Normally it just stops responding entirely. As in one moment it's

sporadic freezes on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all, I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. This particular box (specs lower down) just freezes up sporadically when in Linux. Normally it just stops responding entirely. As in one moment it's

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that >>kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync >>however, so no stack trac

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync however, so no stack trace in the logs either. In fact, looking

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that >>kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync >>however, so no stack trac

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Jaco Kroon wrote: >>>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>>You should be able to control that in xorg.conf. >>> >>>My thoughts exactly. The same goe

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jaco Kroon wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: You should be able to control that in xorg.conf. My thoughts exactly. The same goes for gpm. No. AFAIK multifinger taps are handled by the touchpad firmware

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync however, so no stack trace in the logs either. In fact, looking

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > A-haa.. Well, in that case we'll cheat ;) and just disable MUX mode > for your Toshiba via a DMI quirk, like we do for certain Fujitsus. If > there is no external port there is no reason to have the controller in > MUX mode. > > Could you please send me output of

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Ok, try booting with "usb-handoff i8042.nomux". If that cures yes, it cures both problems (death on reboot and ALPS), in fact. But I must have *both* params. nomux without usb-handoff causes all input devices to fail. Thanks goodness for ssh. Anyway - I'm now running

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): >>black void of death. >> > Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with usb-handoff does it switch the i8042 >

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then >&g

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi, > > On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello all >> >>A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then >>specifically "i8042 timing issues". I refer you to

i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically "i8042 timing issues". I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. It turns out that it was the case that the i8042 controller responds too late on commands, for example, we issue a

i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. It turns out that it was the case that the i8042 controller responds too late on commands, for example, we issue a

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. ... I was under

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): black void of death. Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with usb-handoff does it switch the i8042 into active multiplexing mode (you get 4 AUX

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Ok, try booting with usb-handoff i8042.nomux. If that cures yes, it cures both problems (death on reboot and ALPS), in fact. But I must have *both* params. nomux without usb-handoff causes all input devices to fail. Thanks goodness for ssh. Anyway - I'm now running a

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: A-haa.. Well, in that case we'll cheat ;) and just disable MUX mode for your Toshiba via a DMI quirk, like we do for certain Fujitsus. If there is no external port there is no reason to have the controller in MUX mode. Could you please send me output of 'dmidecode'

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-29 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: What I believe is happening is that we're talking to SMM emulation of the i8042, which doesn't have a clue about these commands, while the underlying real hardware implementation does. And because of that they disagree on what should happen when the command is issued, and

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-29 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: What I believe is happening is that we're talking to SMM emulation of the i8042, which doesn't have a clue about these commands, while the underlying real hardware implementation does. And because of that they disagree on what should happen when the command is issued, and

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-28 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:29:47PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: So what _might_ happen is that we write the command, and then i8042_wait_write() thinks that there is space to write the data immediately, and writes the data, but now the data got lost because the buffer

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-28 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:29:47PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: So what _might_ happen is that we write the command, and then i8042_wait_write() thinks that there is space to write the data immediately, and writes the data, but now the data got lost because the buffer

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: > >>>>ok, how would I try this? Where can I find an example to code it from? >>>> Sorry, I should probably be grepping ... >>> >>>If the udelay() didn't work, then this one isn't

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hmm, just an idea, shouldn't the i8042_write_command be waiting until the device has asserted the pin to indicate that the buffer is busy? No. Because then you might end up waiting forever for the _opposite_ reason, namely

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Which indicates (as far as my understanding goes) that the command times out, as such the param value stays the same (ready for re-use in the second command). The second commands succeeds but does not return one of the expected (0x00

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:12:23PM +0100, Sebastian Piechocki wrote: Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 11:25, Vojtech Pavlik napisaƂ: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:12:23PM +0100, Sebastian Piechocki wrote: Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 11:25, Vojtech Pavlik napisa: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Which indicates (as far as my understanding goes) that the command times out, as such the param value stays the same (ready for re-use in the second command). The second commands succeeds but does not return one of the expected (0x00

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hmm, just an idea, shouldn't the i8042_write_command be waiting until the device has asserted the pin to indicate that the buffer is busy? No. Because then you might end up waiting forever for the _opposite_ reason, namely

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: ok, how would I try this? Where can I find an example to code it from? Sorry, I should probably be grepping ... If the udelay() didn't work, then this one isn't worth worryign about either. Back to the drawing board. Yea

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-26 Thread Jaco Kroon
Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters:) Thanks. If you haven't such a problem, please send them your dmesg with i8042.debug and acpi=off. I made an alternative plan. I applied a custom patch that gives me far less output and prevents scrolling and gets

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-26 Thread Jaco Kroon
Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters:) Thanks. If you haven't such a problem, please send them your dmesg with i8042.debug and acpi=off. I made an alternative plan. I applied a custom patch that gives me far less output and prevents scrolling and gets