First impressions of joyride-2280

[Ton van Overbeek]

Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:17 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
>   
>> I might have spoken too soon.
>>
>> Yesterday the touchpad jumping was back in joyride-2280.
>> In my initial run of joyride-2280 the battery was full and the XO
>> was connected to the mains power.
>> This time I was on the battery and the battery was running down.
>> In dmesg I noted a lot of EC traffic approximately every 2 minutes.
>> Does the frequency of EC polling increase when the battery runs down?
>>     
>
> This is normal. It's not polling as such. The hardware generates an
> interrupt when the battery charge drops by 1% (or when AC power is
> connected/disconnected, etc). The software then queries the EC to figure
> out the new charge levels and power status.
>
>   
>> Also in the touchpad recalibration messages I see a lot of nested
>> calibration requests: several other calibration queued while performing
>> one. This does not seem right to me.
>>     
>
> You should post some logs to clarify exactly what you mean.
>   
I have posted a log (output of dmesg) of a joyride-2280 run attached to 
ticket #7788.
See trac for a description.
Please have a look there. I will now switch to a later joyride to see if 
the problem persists.
Hope you can make sense of the dmesg output.

Ton van Overbeek