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From: dell core2duo <gentoomail.dell@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Strange problems
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:29
Message-Id: e5e065050807040009k1291ba31ydff205bbc1a28ad6@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi all,
2
3 3-4 days back i did a world emerge. First i wanted to do a update only but
4 instead a did a world emerge with --emptytree option. Everything gone quite
5 smoothly.
6 Then i did a module-reubuild. Then a reboot. Everything was fine till now.
7 But after login i noticed one thing, typing anywhere(either on terminal or
8 gedit or anywhere) is not smooth any more.
9 I mean going through in a file up and down or escaping characters is
10 really slow now. One more thing was that 'gsynaptics' was not working
11 anymore.
12 -----------------------------------------------------
13 flukebox@flukebox ~ $ gsynaptics
14
15 ** (gsynaptics:31184): WARNING **: Using synclient
16 flukebox@flukebox ~ $
17 ----------------------------------------------------
18 It appread on screen for few moments less then 2-3 seconds and gone. No
19 errors to trace back.
20 That sucks me totally. Previously i have xorg-x11-7.2, now after world
21 emerge I have xorg-x11-7.3 with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 both
22 the times. I didn't find a cure for that rough typing and synaptics.
23 Then i look inot Xorg log, and quite interestingly found following errors.
24
25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
26 flukebox flukebox # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep EE
27 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
28 (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
29 (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse0
30 (EE) Mouse1: cannot open input device
31 (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"
32 (EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified.
33 (EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
34 (EE) Read error: No such device
35 flukebox flukebox #
36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
37
38 In my Xorg.conf i have following related settings..
39
40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
41 <snip>
42 InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
43 InputDevice "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
44 InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard
45 </snip>
46
47 <snip> ................................
48 load "synaptics
49 ................................
50 </snip>
51
52 <snip>
53 Section "InputDevice"
54 Driver "synaptics"
55 Identifier "Touchpad"
56 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
57 .............................
58 </snip>
59
60
61 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
62 flukebox flukebox # ls -l /dev/input/mouse*
63 crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 32 Jul 4 06:41 /dev/input/mouse0
64 crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 33 Jul 4 06:41 /dev/input/mouse1
65 flukebox flukebox #
66 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
67
68 After that i googled a lot but till now unable to find any cure. So, i
69 forget that for time being.
70
71 Lately i was trying to get hibernate, suspend working on my laptop. I
72 followed "http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_TuxOnIce". I installed
73 "sys-kernel/tuxonice" and got settings accoring to howto.
74 I emerged hibernate-script,suspend too. then i tried hibernating. Aah
75 hiberanting didn't work. It worked partially actually. I am able to
76 hibernate but not able to resume. While resuming system freezes after saying
77 "cleaning". Any specific logs to look into ?
78 when hibernate didn't work .. i give a try to suspend .. and write
79 "hibernate-ram" on terminal and voila it worked. So, I am currently able to
80 suspend.
81 Here comes very interesting and strange part of all of these headaches.
82 After resuming from sleep, one more problem got solved. No more slow typing
83 hurray :P.
84 So, now i can type everywhere(terminal or gedit or whatever) as fast as
85 before emerging world. Even going though in a file up and down, tho and fro
86 are smooth now. But i have no clue whats happing wrong in boot that causing
87 me typing error.And whats good happing while resumming from sleep that
88 remove those error. Does sequence of module probing gives any change ??
89
90
91 <system info>
92 Dell Inspiron 1520
93 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0407 (rev a1)
94 <8600 GT, nvidia>
95 flukebox flukebox # uname -a
96 Linux flukebox 2.6.25-tuxonice-r6 #2 SMP Thu Jul 3 20:19:32 IST 2008 i686
97 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
98
99 </system info>
100
101
102
103 Any help/comments would be highly appreciated.
104
105 Thanks and regards,
106 flukebox