Bug 9727

Summary: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Product: Drivers Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: Input DevicesAssignee: Vegard Nossum (vegard.nossum)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: dmitry.torokhov, synthead, vegard.nossum
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc1 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9243    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-01-10 16:45:40 UTC 
Subject         : psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Submitter       : "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date            : 2007-11-14
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/14/363

Caused by:

commit dac4ae0daa1be36ab015973ed9e9dc04a2684395
Author: William Pettersson <william.pettersson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 5 00:18:44 2007 -0400

    Input: ALPS - add support for model found in Dell Vostro 1400

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dac4ae0daa1be36ab015973ed9e9dc04a2684395
Comment 1 Vegard Nossum 2008-06-30 15:02:32 UTC 
Fixed by:

commit fb49161027e1938c34fc97d1136735e1d4209df6
Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 17 12:01:58 2008 -0500

    Input: ALPS - fix sync loss on Acer Aspire 5720ZG
    
    The recently added support for Dell Volstro 1400 was causing protocol
    synchronization errors on Acer Aspire 5720ZG, fix it.

in mainline. Thanks!