New joyride build 2506 - q2e19

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

Another strange thing I see with q2e19 is that at 19% battery,  
according to the battery gauge, the battery indicatory lamp started  
flashing red and orange.


On Oct 4, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:

>>
>> Is q2e19 going to be included in the 8.2 release?
>> The reason I ask is that trac 8451, test-all crash after the touchpad
>> test,  found in q2e18 is very disconcerting.
>
> q2e19 is a quick-turn release (half-day turnaround from head's up to
> release) for a pre-build of a limited run of machines with a new
> keyboard controller.  It has new and barely-tested EC code plus a
> barely-tested change to the keyboard driver.  It might not survive the
> weekend before e20 is issued.  The mouse test problem that you  
> found is
> likely to be e19's demise.  It's possible that the problem could  
> affect
> the keyboard in some cases.
>
> I have determined that the mouse test problem is caused by some  
> device -
> either the EC or the touchpad - returning a "RESEND" code instead  
> of an
> "ACK" in response to the first "IDENTIFY" request.  I have never seen
> that happen before.  It doesn't happen all the time; a lot of the time
> it works.  I'm working on a fix.
>
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