| tjaalton | bryceh: push libxi git ;) | 07:31 |
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| tjaalton | http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/ | 07:32 |
| tjaalton | probably has powervr gfx on it | 07:33 |
| bryceh | tjaalton, meh, didn't know we maintain it in git | 07:35 |
| tjaalton | bryceh: yep, all the libs are there too | 07:35 |
| tjaalton | where we have patches, like for multitouch etc | 07:35 |
| tjaalton | and.. <drumroll> klingon! | 07:36 |
| tjaalton | actually i thought you just forgot to push the branch | 07:37 |
| bryceh | pushed | 07:42 |
| tjaalton | :) | 07:42 |
| ScottK | Is there a way to disable all the new multi-touch bling? The touchpad on my new laptop is have some issues and I'd like to see if it's related to that first. | 14:53 |
| tjaalton | ScottK: well, you could build the driver without the multitouch patch(es, dunno if there are many) | 15:04 |
| ScottK | Is there a list of packages? | 15:04 |
| tjaalton | xserver-xorg-input-synaptics | 15:05 |
| ScottK | Thanks. I'll have a look. | 15:05 |
| tjaalton | shouldn't matter if the libs still have the feature | 15:06 |
| tjaalton | though, check the x log first to see it's not usin evdev | 15:06 |
| tjaalton | using | 15:06 |
| ScottK | I do see evdev in the X log. | 15:15 |
| ScottK | But it seems to reference other things, not the touchpad (like power button). | 15:16 |
| ScottK | Is there a wiki page or something I can read about to help me figure it out. | 15:16 |
| tjaalton | what do you need to figure out?-) | 15:17 |
| tjaalton | just see if it has synapc | 15:18 |
| tjaalton | duh | 15:18 |
| tjaalton | if the log mentions synaptics | 15:18 |
| ScottK | OK | 15:32 |
| ScottK | tjaalton: It doesn't. | 15:33 |
| ScottK | So then is there a pointer to how I fix that? | 15:33 |
| tjaalton | ScottK: does xinput list tell it's an alps device? | 15:42 |
| ScottK | ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | yeah | 15:44 |
| ScottK | http://paste.ubuntu.com/604115/ | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | so it's a kernel bug then | 15:44 |
| ScottK | Sigh. | 15:44 |
| ScottK | So do I need to force it to synaptics in an xorg.conf or is it just wait for a kernel fix? | 15:45 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: is this the e6320? no its not the multi-touch bling, this thing is a generic PS2 mouse with some hacks in the kernel to emulate a scroll wheel and tap to click | 15:47 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: whats wrong with it? | 15:47 |
| ScottK | It's Latitude E something. | 15:48 |
| Sarvatt | these things majorly suck, I wish dell would spend the extra 20 cents on a synaptics :) | 15:48 |
| tjaalton | we carry a patch to enable some alps devices as synaptics-capable, but it's not enough in this case | 15:48 |
| ScottK | Sigh. | 15:48 |
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| Sarvatt | ScottK: whats wrong though? | 15:48 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: Mostly the touchpad works fine, but then every now and then I can't move the pointer or it will only go exactly vertical or horizontal. | 15:48 |
| ScottK | Sometimes it seems to jump too. | 15:49 |
| tjaalton | man, irc from a bus through the countryside... multifail | 15:49 |
| ScottK | tjaalton: Thanks for your dedication. | 15:49 |
| tjaalton | ScottK: heh, np | 15:50 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: do you use the scroll support? I can build you a kernel real quick without that patch to see if the situation is any better if you want | 15:50 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: I haven't enabled anything special. The only thing I use is the scroll when I drag up and down the right side of the touchpad (so I guess that's a yes) | 15:51 |
| ScottK | If so, losing that would be worse than the problems I'm having. | 15:51 |
| Sarvatt | ah, thats not an upstream patch and is a distro specific hack we're adding, if you use a mainline kernel you dont even get that at this point :( | 15:51 |
| Sarvatt | hmm | 15:51 |
| Sarvatt | we have a large number of these things and i haven't seen any other reports of that problem oddly | 15:52 |
| tjaalton | Sarvatt: so i've misunderstood the patch ?-) | 15:52 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: I'm using the distro kernel. | 15:53 |
| Sarvatt | tjaalton: maybe I have? with an upstream kernel it's reported as a generic ps2 mouse and you dont get scroll support, we've got a patch making it show up as a ImPS/2 | 15:53 |
| tjaalton | Sarvatt: no, it's me, i thought it would add proper support for those, but if the hw doesn't support the synaptics features.. ? | 15:54 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: rmmod psmouse/modprobe psmouse when it happens very likely will work around it, thats no fix but might help make it usable in the meantime | 15:59 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: tHANKS. | 15:59 |
| ScottK | Thanks even | 15:59 |
| ScottK | (keyboard works, that was my fault) | 15:59 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: do you have any external mice plugged in? | 20:51 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: No. | 20:51 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: I seem to have just hit the same problem on my E6420, but couldn't get any info out of it because rmmod psmouse took down the machine | 20:52 |
| Sarvatt | only thing different was the 2.6.39-1 kernel from oneiric and I had a bluetooth mouse going | 20:53 |
| ScottK | I'm also getting X going to 100% CPU and I can move the mouse, but no keyboard/mouse clicks work. | 20:54 |
| Sarvatt | cursor was stuck on the left edge of the screen | 20:54 |
| ScottK | Yeah. That's it. | 20:54 |
| ScottK | Interestingly it only happens when LibreOffice is open. | 20:55 |
| Sarvatt | this thing has been fine for 16 hours a day for the past month straight, odd that it just started now | 20:55 |
| ScottK | New xserver out of proposed to updates yesterday. | 20:55 |
| ScottK | Fortunately troubleshooting the laptop isn't on my critical path to getting on an airplane tomorrow, so I'll worry about it in a week + a few days. | 20:56 |
| Sarvatt | hmm its not on natty-changes | 20:56 |
| Sarvatt | yeah I kind of hope I can reproduce it on the plane to give me something to do tomorrow :) | 20:57 |
| ScottK | Sarvatt: If you want something to work on, leave a complex LO spreadsheet open while you work on other things and then see if X hangs up on you after awhile (it's been between a few minutes and a few hours for me) | 21:04 |
| ScottK | Of course this may be another fun 'just in KDE' bug too. | 21:04 |
| ScottK | No idea. | 21:04 |
| ScottK | Turning compositing off doesn't help. | 21:04 |
| Sarvatt | ScottK: will do, do you notice it coinciding with the screensaver kicking in by any chance? | 21:18 |
| ScottK | No. | 21:19 |
| ScottK | It's happened while I was away from the computer and also while I we working on the spreadsheet in question. | 21:19 |
| ScottK | It did happen once while I was trying to save a document and that's pure KDE there, so maybe it's the KDE addon for LO. | 21:20 |
| Sarvatt | off to UDS! | 23:46 |
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