Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:45:07 +0100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse) Message-ID: <20051122084506.GN853@eucla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1351.172.16.1.40.1132549301.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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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
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