Re: Synaptics touchpad & keyboard on Toshiba Satellite M30
In the hope that somebody can give some suggestion related to a problem already mentioned in the message below, I add the following information.
SETUP: Sarge with kernel 2.6.8 on Toshiba Satellite M30
PROBLEM: while typing (both with X and on console) sometimes the characters stop being displayed, and they reappear after a little way. Very often one character is displayed a bunch of times, as in
/wrtiw/ret.sdfkjsbdf.vkmsb................................dkgu;veo8rvcw;er9vcwn'ernw89vcn'p9cw8e'rp9
SYSLOG:
When the keyboard has the problem, /var/log/syslog gives reports:
Aug 24 07:54:58 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed.
Aug 24 07:55:01 localhost last message repeated 3 times
KEYBOARD:
While cat /proc/bus/input/devices yields
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120003
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: LED=7
Thanks
Alessandro
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a Debian SARGE on a Toshiba Satellite M30.
> I have a 2.6.7 kernel and various nvidia related debs.
> I also installed xfree86-driver-synaptics.
>
>
> I have the following PROBLEMS:
>
> 1) when I touch the touchpad (not the button) it often does not respond, and I have to touch again several times with increased strength.
> 2) when I type on the keuboard, very often the characters are not recognized (I guess), they stop being displayed on the terminal. Sometimes they just get displayed after a while, some other times one of them is repeated for a bunch of times.
>
> I checked the page of Marco Kraus:
> http://www.linuxstuff.de/toshiba-m30/toshiba-m30.htm
> and found he also had problem (2), together with suggestions to correct them. He in fact advises not to install the synaptic driver, and to recompile the kernel after some changes by hand in some of the .c files of the kernel. He uses a Linux-original 2.6.8 kernel.
>
> I wonder if some other (and possibly more standard) way is available now (since Kraus' page is some 4 months old). Since I am no expert, I would much prefer to stick to a more Debian-standard approach.
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
> Alessandro Ghigi
>
>
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