Pretty spiffy box, overall. I think some would object to the keyboard
but it seems fine to me...when I'm not using my Kinesis. ;-)
Glitches and odd points:
With it plugged into the dock and closed, I'm getting occasional mouse
jumps, mostly to the bottom right corner and usually with a button
press, to the point that it's selected text in an xterm and then
pasted it into that very xterm. I've been lucky that no terrible
commands have been so invoked. Maybe the touchpad (or touchscreen?)
is getting spurious events when the lid is closed? Propping it
slightly open (~2cm) _seems_ to reduces the occurrences but does not
eliminate them: perhaps a red herring.
USB keyboard plugged into the dock works at the boot prompt (so I can
enter my crypto softraid password with it just fine), but doesn't get
recognized correctly by the kernel. In the dmesg you see something
like this:
uhub5 at uhub4 port 2 "PI Engineering \^W???" rev 1.10/3.20 addr 7
Once it goes multiuser I unplug and replug it into the dock and it's happy:
uhub5 detached
uhub5 at uhub4 port 2 "PI Engineering Kinesis Keyboard Hub"
rev 1.10/3.20 addr 7
uhidev4 at uhub5 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "P.I.
Engineering product 0x0007" rev 1.10/3.20 addr 13
uhidev4: iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev4: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes, country code 33
...etc
The USB ports on the computer itself are even flakier, with the
keyboard only being recognized on maybe one in six insertions. Maybe
it doesn't like that retro USB1 stuff.
Seems to regularly hit the problem where wscons (or was it wsmux?)
drops a device and the X server goes into a poll loop on the EIO that
it gets. Maybe that's from the umpteen USB devices associated with
the touch screen and touchpad which attach and detach at the drop of a
hat. Easily noticed by hearing the wind from the CPU fan pick up for
no reason. Flipping to console with control-alt-F1 and back gets it
out of that loop, as always.
Monitor connected to the DVI port on the dock shows as DP1 in xrandr,
but otherwise works fine with -current.
Builds are wonderfully fast and it's nice to have something *much*
lighter than my T510.
Philip Guenther
