Bug#673046: i8kutils: Touchpad random irresponsiveness (isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization)
Package: i8kutils
Version: 1.33
Severity: normal
Hi,
I know this package is orphaned, but found some information that might be interesting for other kernel related bugs, like #507635. When I start i8kmon service, touchpad becomes randomly irresponsive and affects user experience. This bug happens both in X and console mode, but it happens more often when using a graphical session. I'm writing this bug from the console with gpm (no X processes running). One has to intensively use the touchpad with such settings to reproduce this behaviour. During an X session it's much more frequent.
Steps to reproduce it:
1) Load the i8k module
2) Enable i8kmon service in /etc/default/i8kmon
3) Start i8kmon service
Entries appear in /var/log/messages:
May 15 19:29:12 kotetsu kernel: [ 1108.888889] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
[...]
May 15 19:31:02 kotetsu kernel: [ 1218.750811] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away.
[...]
May 15 19:31:02 kotetsu kernel: [ 1218.750811] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away.
This issue goes away if i8kmon service is stopped. Unloading i8k module is not necessary.
I'm writing from a Dell Inspiron 14z and psmouse module is loaded with default options.
Regards,
Abel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages i8kutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-30
ii tk8.4 [wish] 8.4.19-4
i8kutils recommends no packages.
i8kutils suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/i8kmon changed:
ENABLED=1
-- no debconf information
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