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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:20:26 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell 5150 laptop and lost PS/2 touchpad
Message-ID:  <1072218026.1268.23.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20031223221655.GB63638@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20031223220836.GA63638@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <1072217457.1268.21.camel@gyros> <20031223221655.GB63638@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:16, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:10:57PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:08, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > and with/without apic compiled into the kernel.  After
> > > looking through psm.c, I added
> > >=20
> > > hint.psm.0.flags=3D"0x1000"   # Ignore error in Aux Port test
> > >=20
> > > to /boot/device.hints.   A verbose boot shows:
> > >=20
> > > psm0: current command byte:0065
> > > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
> > > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0-00, 2 buttons
> > > psm0: config:00001000, flags:00000000, packet size:3
> > > psm0: syncmask:c0, syncbits:00
> > >=20
> > > and moused(8) seems to be happy.  I haven't looked closer
> > > at the problem, yet.  However, with the impending release
> > > of 5.2, an erratum may be in order.
> >=20
> > Have a look at my 5150 tips at
> > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=3Dshow_laptop=
_detail&laptop=3D147.
> >=20
>=20
> Joe,
>=20
> Thanks for the URL.  My next chores are the update acpi on
> the dell and install XFree86.

My point was this didn't happen until I did the BIOS update.  That BIOS
update is important, though, so this would make a good errata item.  I
seem to recall some other laptops (maybe Dell only) have this problem,
too.

Joe

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