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From: marco restelli <mrestelli@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:47:10
Message-Id: bf36c5560606221931k5868875bi42e11b6cf24179f8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad by Richard Fish
1 On 6/21/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On 6/17/06, marco restelli <mrestelli@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Everything works fine, but the touchpad.
4 > > Indeed I have all the advanced features working: double click,
5 > > scroll ... but using the touchpad when the CPU load is hight
6 > > the mouse starts jumping around and clicking everywhere.
7 >
8 > I see two problems in your dmesg output:
9 >
10 > > warning: many lost ticks.
11 > > Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
12 > > rip __do_softirq+0x45/0xc9
13 >
14 > Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
15 > particularly the clock= option. clock=pmtmr might be the best option
16 > here...although I'm not sure it applies to amd64.
17 >
18 > > input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
19 > > APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
20 >
21 > Booting with noapic (again, see kernel-parameters.txt) should help.
22 > It might also clear up the time issue above.
23 >
24 > HTH,
25 > -Richard
26 > --
27 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
28 >
29 >
30
31 Hi Richard,
32 thank you for the suggustions, but it does not work.
33 Those two errors are still present, for whatever choice
34 of the clock option :-(
35
36 Marco
37 --
38 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>