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. In particular, when I type about 1 in 10 key presses simply do not register. I ended up going back to the Nov 4 stable-6, which fixed the problem. Any ideas? I am happy to provide any details you may need. Stephen
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2005-Nov-19 23:59 UTC
ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)
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".> In particular, when I type about 1 in 10 key presses simply do not > register.This, however, is a order of magnitude worse than what I have experienced with my Inspiron 6100.> I ended up going back to the Nov 4 stable-6, which fixed the > problem.Well, it worked around it.> Any ideas? I am happy to provide any details you may need.I'd guess that this is another ACPI issue like the one I reported a couple of weeks back. In my case, it was slow, but I didn't lose any keystrokes. What happens when you ping another system? I found that the ping time was normal (in the order of 1 ?s), but it repeated only every 3 seconds. When I unloaded ACPI, things worked normally. I'm following this up to the ACPI list with a reminder that my message has been there for 2 weeks. How do I localize the problem? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers