Re: Dell 5150 laptop and lost PS/2 touchpad

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:08, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a Dell BIOS problem, new interrupt
> code problem, or PS/2 device driver problem.  The Dell
> 5150 laptop has a Synaptic touchpad, which fails to 
> attach with the GENERIC kernel from RC1 and a custom
> kernel from today sources.   A verbose boot shows:
> 
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x66,0x62,0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> atkbd: the current kbd controller command byte 0065
> atkbd: keyboard ID 0x41ab (2)
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> kbd0: atkbd0, AT 101/102 (2), config:0x1, flags:0x3d0000
> psm0: current command byte:0065
> psm0: the aux port is not functioning (-1).
>  
> Note, the psm0 messages are unchanged with/without acpi
> and with/without apic compiled into the kernel.  After
> looking through psm.c, I added
> 
> hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"   # Ignore error in Aux Port test
> 
> to /boot/device.hints.   A verbose boot shows:
> 
> psm0: current command byte:0065
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0-00, 2 buttons
> psm0: config:00001000, flags:00000000, packet size:3
> psm0: syncmask:c0, syncbits:00
> 
> and moused(8) seems to be happy.  I haven't looked closer
> at the problem, yet.  However, with the impending release
> of 5.2, an erratum may be in order.

Have a look at my 5150 tips at
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=147.

Joe

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