I can confirm Andrea's findings 100% it sums it up for me completely. Especially that there is no relation between inplugging / outplugging of the battery. On the side, my now 80% complete switch to mandriva to avoid this bug learned me that (k)ubuntu should drastically improve its kde integration...
I any testing on a dell needs done I'm available with a D830. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Andrea Ratto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still present with 2.6.24-19-generic. Here are my findings: > 1 battery or not battery it happens > 2 it starts when using again the touchpad after a period of inactivity. > (Maybe on battery this period can be shorter) > when it starts it freezes everything for some seconds, CPU usage get to > 100% on all cores. At this point if you keep insisting on the touchpad you > can really crash the machine. If you let go it usually just pass but you > have to notice quickly. > 3 sometimes the touchpad looses touchpad functionalities (eg scrolling on > the right border). > 4 dmesg entry "psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost > synchronization, throwing N bytes away." not always shows. > 5 many people are having this problem, someone also on fedora, someone > since 2.6.15, mostly on dell laptops. > > I think I could get to reproduce it anytime I want, so I can produce any > debug/crash information. Just tell me what to do and I'll do it. > > -- > [hardy]computer and touchpad is buggy when running on battery > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189814 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15146288/unnamed -- [hardy]computer and touchpad is buggy when running on battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189814 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs