Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:17:17 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse) Message-ID: <4383448D.1050300@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <20051122084506.GN853@eucla.lemis.com> References: <20051122084506.GN853@eucla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Sunday, 20 November 2005 at 23:01:41 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >Indeed. After all, you're quoting yourself :-) I said: > > > >>>This, however, is a order of magnitude worse than what I have >>>experienced with my Inspiron 6100. >>> >>> > >In particular, I didn't get any dropped characters. And I note that >I've misquoted the model number; it's an Inspiron 6000, not 6100 (I >don't think the latter exists). > > > >>>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. >> >> > >I would have been interested to hear the results of the ping. But >yes, it would be nice to get the machine to work nicely with ACPI. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address and phone numbers >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > It looks like my problem on my M70. This is caused by recent changes to cmbat in -stable. I have tested a patch for it from Hajimu UMEMOTO this morning and it seams to be working fine with that patch. Look at the thread "Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday" in acpi mailing list
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