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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:01:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and  mouse)
Message-ID:  <1351.172.16.1.40.1132549301.squirrel@email.polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051120075905.GB856@eucla.lemis.com>
References:  <437FEF5F.5070602@math.missouri.edu> <20051120075905.GB856@eucla.lemis.com>

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On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen
> Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on
>> my Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, and suddenly the response of the
>> touchpad mouse and keyboard was bery bad.
>
> Heh.  I saw the subject line and thought "I wonder if this is a Dell
> laptop".
>
Well, I'm "glad" I'm not the only one :)

>> In particular, when I type about 1 in 10 key presses simply do not
>> register.
>
Same here, it's basically unusable if you're a fast touch typist.

> This, however, is a order of magnitude worse than what I have
> experienced with my Inspiron 6100.
>
Dell C600 here, 6.0-STABLE

> What happens when you ping another system?  I found that the ping time
> was normal (in the order of 1 µs), but it repeated only every 3
> seconds.  When I unloaded ACPI, things worked normally.
>
Not loading ACPI fixed my issues too.  I'd be more than happy to help
any testing that may develop.

-- 
Regards,
Doug




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