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Biostar iDEQ 200V Suspend to RAM

Posted October 26, 2005 - 12:24am by Stephen Evanchik

I had this really great post but my Drupal decided to eat it because FCKEditor died or something. What total crap. Oh well.

I have been really busy lately so I haven't had much time to work on the TrackPoint driver. It seems to have found its way in to the -mm kernel tree which makes my life easier.

I have become obessed with making my SFF PC quiet and reducing the amount of electricity we use in our apartment. The need for quiet comes from a noisy fan. I want to find a place that sells the Vantec 60mm Stealth fan and grommet as well as some noise dampening material. I don't want to have them shipped seperately as I'll pay way too much. I also ordered a kill-a-watt tool that I can use to measure the amount of electricity devices use. I plan on testing my PC at idle, full load and, on ACPI S3 which is Suspend to RAM or STR.

Updated Linux 2.6.12 TrackPoint driver

Posted July 20, 2005 - 8:11pm by Stephen Evanchik

 Changes were made to the Synaptics driver that prevent some pass-thru devices from working properly. The Synaptics fix will be in future kernels only, so I have updated the TrackPoint 2.6.12 patch to include the fix.


Download: trackpoint-with-synaptics-fix-2.6.12.patch

Oh, and I know the site looks ugly and is a little slow.. I'm working on both problems.

TrackPoint for Linux 2.6.12

Posted June 23, 2005 - 9:56pm by Stephen Evanchik

 I finally got around to learning about git and setting up my developement environment. I am using CENTOS now and its a bit of a change from what I am used to.

Download the patch: trackpoint-2.6.12.patch

If you use CENTOS, RHEL 4 or Fedora Core 4, then here is a SPEC file that you can use to rebuild your kernel SRPM. First install kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm and then download the SPEC file and place it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS . Run the following command to build the kernel tree:

 rpmbuild -bb trackpoint.kernel-2.6.spec

TrackPoint 2.6.11.7

Posted April 18, 2005 - 4:06am by Stephen Evanchik

Here is the latest version of my TrackPoint patch against Linux 2.6.11.7.

I have also created a SPEC file for FC4, RHEL 4, CENTOS 4. Download the SRPM kernel-2.6.11-1.1226_FC4.src.rpm
You can rebuild the SRPM with a command like:

rpmbuild -vv -ba --target=`arch` kernel-2.6.spec

TrackPoint Driver for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc2

Posted January 29, 2005 - 6:08pm by Stephen Evanchik

 I just updated my TrackPoint driver so that it patches against 2.6.11-rc2. Starting with 2.6.11 the PS/2 layer now has its own communications library. This means that I have to maintain two versions of the driver until 2.6.11 is released.

Included in the 2.6.11-rc2 release is UltraNav support which I backported to 2.6.10. This means that ThinkPads (and other laptops) that have both a touchpad and a TrackPoint can now use both devices and take advantage of the extended TrackPoint properties. I still consider this preliminary support since I haven’t tested it very much.

TrackPoint / UltraNav 2.6.11-rc2 @ Clarkson

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