kern/54188: [PATCH] touchpad doesn't work on some Acer and Toshiba latops

Victor Balada Diaz victor at alf.dyndns.ws
Mon Jul 7 09:50:14 PDT 2003


>Number:         54188
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] touchpad doesn't work on some Acer and Toshiba latops
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 07 09:50:11 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Victor Balada Diaz <victor at alf.dyndns.ws>
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD amnesiac.euesrg02.net 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 23 16:05:39 CEST 2003     victor at amnesiac.euesrg02.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKERNEL  i386

Machine: Acer Aspire 1403LC, Pentium 4 2000mhz, 512MB ram, 30GB HD, standar two buttons touchpad

	
>Description:
The touchpad is not detected.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
Try booting the system in some Acer Aspire notebook. 
	
>Fix:

	
Apply this patch to src/sys/isa/psm.c,v 1.55:

--- patch begins here ---
--- /usr/src/sys/isa/psm.c	Wed Apr 30 14:57:39 2003
+++ psm.c	Mon Jul  7 15:39:16 2003
@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@
 
     switch((i = test_aux_port(kbdc))) {
     case 1:	/* ignore this error */
+    case 2:	/* ignore this error */
     case PSM_ACK:
 	if (verbose)
 	    log(LOG_DEBUG, "psm%d: strange result for test aux port (%d).\n",
@@ -1009,9 +1010,11 @@
      * error code. Even if the controller HAS error with the aux port,
      * it will be detected later...
      * XXX: another incompatible controller returns PSM_ACK (0xfa)...
+     * XXX: Some Acer and Toshiba notebooks returns 2...
      */
     switch ((i = test_aux_port(sc->kbdc))) {
     case 1:	   /* ignore this error */
+    case 2:	   /* ignore this error */
     case PSM_ACK:
         if (verbose)
 	    printf("psm%d: strange result for test aux port (%d).\n",
--- patch ends here ---


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