Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-12 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:04:31 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:45:47PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > > > July. Although I've never ventured to comp

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:45:47PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > > July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I > > could download the tarball and try

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I > could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong > track? You might want to reconsider that. 4.

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:05:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I'm glad that synclient could do the job. Yes, thanks David, the command is working nicely. > When you're in X, and if you type Ctrl-Alt-F2, say, is the VC as > screwed up as when you exit X with (I assume) Ctrl-Alt-Rubout. Well, i

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic > > one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But > > this needs to be pursued in another thread.

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:08:30PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > >

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic > one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But > this needs to be pursued in another thread. This is most likely https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8558

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Jape Person
On 07/10/2015 03:56 PM, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combina

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote: > >On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > >problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that > >key combination does nothing. Is this because Wi

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:08:30PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The t

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Jape Person
On 07/10/2015 02:26 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Jape Person wrote: One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for updating the microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely possible

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Jape Person wrote: > One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the > intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for updating the > microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely possible that a fix in > the microcode update is defeating your a

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > > > problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy w

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > > problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that > > key combination does nothi

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Jape Person
On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? What should be a sure fire way is to disable i

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread lostson
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 10:07 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that > key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? > What should be a sure fire wa

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that > key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? > What should be a sure

can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? What should be a sure fire way is to disable it in BIOS. I do that, but it has no effect. H