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Re: touchpad in Ubuntu 12.04 BETA2 armhf

 

hi,
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:39:03 +0200
Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 April 2012 16:55:08 Jasper Taylor wrote:
> > On 02/04/12 18:37, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 April 2012 16:37:41 Tomáš Vaculín wrote:
> > >> >  Hi Marc,
> > >> >  
> > >> >  Attached please find whole kern.log from last run when the
> > >> > problem occurred. 
> > >> >  Except start of the system I found this:
> > >> >  Apr  2 15:15:45 ac100 kernel: [ 3707.346624] nvec nvec.0:
> > >> > unexpected status flags 0x18 during state 1
> > >> >
> > >> >  Kernel version is 3.0.19-2-ac100
> > > yes, I also saw this. Could be harmless or the source of the
> > > problems, hard to predict ...
> > >
> > > But you can put something like this into your /etc/rc.local:
> > >
> > > 	echo 16384>  /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> > >
> > > to get rid of the wifi warnings.
> > >
> > > A limited emergency pool can also be a reason for lost nvec
> > > packages.
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > I tried this and it had no effect. I have the 10U version.
> 
> please check  /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes after reboot.
> If it does not contain 16386, please do a chmod +x /etc/rc.local.
> Several people have reported that doing this solved the problem for
> them (until now). Here is my rc.local btw:

instead of hacking rc.local, better use the sysctl mechanism:

echo "vm.min_free_kbytes=16384"| sudo tee \
-a /etc/sysctl.d/30-min-free-kb.conf 
...
and make it read the new config:

sudo service procps start

ciao
	oli

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