Bug fixes self

[ewx]

A while back I bought an HP Mini 210. This comes with Windows 7¹ but I fairly quickly installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it.

This worked pretty well except for two issues. Firstly the wireless networking was very flaky, and secondly the trackpad seemed to be miscalibrated - clicking clearly within the marked button areas produced a cursor move as well as a click.

As of this evening both problems appear to have fixed themselves.

I think that the wireless problem was actually a problem with my WAP. So that’s not especially mysterious (although it might mean getting a new WAP, if it recurs.)

The trackpad is more mysterious on the other hand. I’d got as far as fishing plausible-looking patches to the synaptics driver out of the upstream kernel and rebuilding the kernel with them applied but not as far as actually installed them, only to discover that the trackpad is behaving fine and that the kernel is using the psmouse driver.

My current theory is that venta’s goblins have a sideline in computer maintenance.

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¹ Actually it also comes with a Linux install in the firmware, into which it boots by default and lets you run Firefox and some other stuff, not as far as I’ve yet found including a shell.