Re: [patch 0/2] Make the touchpad on the MSI Wind netbook work

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:25:58 +0100
Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed 2009-02-04 19:15:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

quoted

Hi,

A MSI Wind (100) netbook landed on my desk with the comment
"touchpad doesn't work in Linux but works in XP". 

It turns out that there are a 2 separate issues with this netbook
that needed fixing 

1) The touchpad requires the equivalent of "i8042.reset", which
resets the controller before probing. (This is done via a DMI quirk
in patch 2/2)

2) About half the time, the reset will fail the first time. In the
current code, this is fatal and then also disables the keyboard in
addition to the touchpad. Ungood. Patch 1 makes the kernel retry the
reset upto five times before giving up (it seems the 2nd or 3rd time
succeed for me), and also adds an option to not make such a failure
fatal to the keyboard.

I don't think this is a regression, but it is pretty nasty behavior
(the machine is useless without) so it could be a 2.6.29
candidate...

Well, that beast was selling with linux preloaded, no? Or was it
another msi wind? In such case I'd expect old kernel to work... or
maybe some reasonable workaround somewhere...

afaik the newer ones have a different touchpad

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