Re: [KJ] my first janitorial

2007-03-31 Thread Jaco Kroon
Pedram M wrote: How about this one? Am I doing it right now? If not, please try to explain more to me what I am doing wrong. You need a changelog entry (or explanation of what you're doing). You need a signed-off-by line and your patch needs to apply to the root of the kernel tree with -p1, s

Re: sporadic "freezes" on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Mike Galbraith wrote: > At 10:33 PM 8/5/2005 +0200, you wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems >> deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. > > Given the number of kernels it freezes under, I'd say hardware. That

sporadic "freezes" on amd64 (GA K8NF)

2005-08-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all, I'm absolutely stumped with this one. We are still having problems deciding whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem. This particular box (specs lower down) just freezes up sporadically when in Linux. Normally it just stops responding entirely. As in one moment it's

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that >>kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync >>however, so no stack trac

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that >>kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync >>however, so no stack trac

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Jaco Kroon wrote: >>>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>>You should be able to control that in xorg.conf. >>> >>>My thoughts exactly. The same goes for g

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > A-haa.. Well, in that case we'll cheat ;) and just disable MUX mode > for your Toshiba via a DMI quirk, like we do for certain Fujitsus. If > there is no external port there is no reason to have the controller in > MUX mode. > > Could you please send me output of 'dmideco

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Ok, try booting with "usb-handoff i8042.nomux". If that cures yes, it cures both problems (death on reboot and ALPS), in fact. But I must have *both* params. nomux without usb-handoff causes all input devices to fail. Thanks goodness for ssh. Anyway - I'm now running a

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): >>black void of death. >> > Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with usb-handoff does it switch the i8042 >

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then >&g

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi, > > On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello all >> >>A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then >>specifically "i8042 timing issues". I refer you to

i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically "i8042 timing issues". I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. It turns out that it was the case that the i8042 controller responds too late on commands, for example, we issue a AUX_

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-29 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: What I believe is happening is that we're talking to SMM emulation of the i8042, which doesn't have a clue about these commands, while the underlying real hardware implementation does. And because of that they disagree on what should happen when the command is issued, and sinc

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-28 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:29:47PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: So what _might_ happen is that we write the command, and then i8042_wait_write() thinks that there is space to write the data immediately, and writes the data, but now the data got lost because the buffer was

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: > >>>>ok, how would I try this? Where can I find an example to code it from? >>>> Sorry, I should probably be grepping ... >>> >>>If the udelay() didn't work, then this one i

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hmm, just an idea, shouldn't the i8042_write_command be waiting until the device has asserted the pin to indicate that the buffer is busy? No. Because then you might end up waiting forever for the _opposite_ reason, namely tha

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jaco Kroon wrote: Which indicates (as far as my understanding goes) that the command times out, as such the param value stays the same (ready for re-use in the second command). The second commands succeeds but does not return one of the expected (0x00

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Jaco Kroon
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:12:23PM +0100, Sebastian Piechocki wrote: Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 11:25, Vojtech Pavlik napisaƂ: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel ma

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-26 Thread Jaco Kroon
Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters:) Thanks. If you haven't such a problem, please send them your dmesg with i8042.debug and acpi=off. I made an alternative plan. I applied a custom patch that gives me far less output and prevents scrolling and gets wha