ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

[Doug Poland]

On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen
> Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on
>> my Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, and suddenly the response of the
>> touchpad mouse and keyboard was bery bad.
>
> Heh.  I saw the subject line and thought "I wonder if this is a Dell
> laptop".
>
Well, I'm "glad" I'm not the only one :)

>> In particular, when I type about 1 in 10 key presses simply do not
>> register.
>
Same here, it's basically unusable if you're a fast touch typist.

> This, however, is a order of magnitude worse than what I have
> experienced with my Inspiron 6100.
>
Dell C600 here, 6.0-STABLE

> What happens when you ping another system?  I found that the ping time
> was normal (in the order of 1 µs), but it repeated only every 3
> seconds.  When I unloaded ACPI, things worked normally.
>
Not loading ACPI fixed my issues too.  I'd be more than happy to help
any testing that may develop.

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Regards,
Doug