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geckoguykc

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Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 49

synaptics, acpi issues, battery status

I have a laptop with poor acpi support. The battery status reports correctly for about an hour of use then the icon turns black and acpi -bs shows the batter not to be present. I have heard that this can be fixed by setting up the kernel for EC polling mode instead of IRQ mode. I don't really understand what this means or how to do it though.

I'm running the 2.6.28 kernel.

Another problem I'm having on my laptop is that my xorg.conf has the mouse setup as a USB mouse, while it's actually a touchpad. I've tried configuring it according to the wiki, but any time I try to put anything regarding a touchpad or synaptics in xorg.conf, It ruins my X server and I have to regenerate xorg.conf to get gdm running again. The way the mouse is currently set up I can't use side scrolling.

geckoguykc

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Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 49

Re: synaptics, acpi issues, battery status

Also my webcam doesn't work. It's a bisoncam, and I thought the uvcvideo module was supposed to work for them but it doesn't seem to. "dmesg | grep video" seems to detect it, but I can't get any webcam apps to load.