[ltp] ThinkPad R31 Information

[James Knott]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Paul Sladen wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/thinkpad.html
>>
>>Everything appears fine, except the trackpoint is so erratic as to be
>>unusable.
> 
> 
> Try disabling whatever is constantly polling APM---probably some type of
> status-tray / battery monitor Applet.
> 
> The PS/2, keyboard scan, power management and the like are all appear to be
> handled by a single Super I/O chip which seems to go to pot if the APM is
> being queried at that moment and something like mouse/keyboard movement
> occurs.
> 
> These symptoms have come up on the Linux/R31 list a couple of times;
> 
>   http://www.vobcopy.org/pipermail/r31/


I found the necessary info there.  I had to add the kernel option 
i8042.nomux=1.  It now works fine.

tnx jk