Description of problem: TouchPad breaks during work with the computer. This happens with two different computers with the same system. To „break“ usually means to degrade to an ordinary mouse (middle button emulation and scrolling are gone). Sometimes it freezes so bad that I can't even use the mouse at all, which renders Gnome mostly unusable, and I have to switch to a text console even to reboot the system (as I cannot confirm rebooting without mouse). kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.4-1.fc15.x86_64 From dmesg: [ 1390.530232] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity [ 1390.534191] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.535492] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.536788] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.538082] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.550624] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched. [ 1390.785096] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity [ 1390.790095] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.791389] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.793782] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.795097] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.796391] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 [ 1390.796394] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request [ 1391.331090] Unable to initialize Synaptics hardware. [ 1391.811876] Unable to query Synaptics hardware. [ 1392.599682] input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9 When this happens, I have to restart the whole system to get back anything more than just clicking and moving. Or sometimes I have to restart even to continue working.
(In reply to comment #1) > Description of problem: > > TouchPad breaks during work with the computer. This happens with two different > computers with the same system. > You mean two different computers with the same keyboard? > [ 1390.530232] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity This is usually an indication of hardware trouble.
No, I mean two different laptops without external keyboard. „This is usually an indication of hardware trouble.“ Or broken drivers, when it starts happening after kernel upgrades.
(In reply to comment #2) > No, I mean two different laptops without external keyboard. > > „This is usually an indication of hardware trouble.“ > > Or broken drivers, when it starts happening after kernel upgrades. Do you know the first kernel upgrade this started happening with, or alternatively the last kernel it works 100% of the time with?
Unfortunately not. I see I didn't mention the kernel upgrade originally, I'm sorry for that. I don't think it was ever 100%, but I believe last one or two upgrades made it worse. Let's say it happened maybe once a week or less (one/two upgrades back), and now it is much more often. And I'm using another laptop right now, but can test with the other two.
Is this still happening with 2.6.43/3.3?
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