Comment 27 for bug 189814

I can confirm Andrea's findings 100% it sums it up for me completely.
Especially that there is no relation between inplugging / outplugging of the
battery.
On the side, my now 80% complete switch to mandriva to avoid this bug
learned me that (k)ubuntu should drastically improve its kde integration...

I any testing on a dell needs done I'm available with a D830.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Andrea Ratto <email address hidden>
wrote:

> still present with 2.6.24-19-generic. Here are my findings:
> 1 battery or not battery it happens
> 2 it starts when using again the touchpad after a period of inactivity.
> (Maybe on battery this period can be shorter)
> when it starts it freezes everything for some seconds, CPU usage get to
> 100% on all cores. At this point if you keep insisting on the touchpad you
> can really crash the machine. If you let go it usually just pass but you
> have to notice quickly.
> 3 sometimes the touchpad looses touchpad functionalities (eg scrolling on
> the right border).
> 4 dmesg entry "psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost
> synchronization, throwing N bytes away." not always shows.
> 5 many people are having this problem, someone also on fedora, someone
> since 2.6.15, mostly on dell laptops.
>
> I think I could get to reproduce it anytime I want, so I can produce any
> debug/crash information. Just tell me what to do and I'll do it.
>
> --
> [hardy]computer and touchpad is buggy when running on battery
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189814
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