Problems with Core 2 and Dell Latitude c610

[douglas_slac]

Final got around to installing Fedora Core 2 on my Dell latitude. I have had installs from RH7 to Fedora Core 1 on the machine. And other than network cards stop working, not that many problems on upgrade.

But I think going to the 2.6.5 kernel is giving me problems:

1. The touch pad can no longer "click" by tapping the pad. Is there some other mouse driver I should be trying for the new xorg?

2. The bios signals from the keyboard are now blocked. I can't send a suspend signal from the keyboard, or look at the bios setup screen like I could before. On the other hand, the system now does recognise the top closing, it never did before, and will just suspend on that. Also the cpu temp is read correctly after coming back from suspend, before it would just peg at 85 deg., and the fans would go nuts after wake up, and that has finally gone away. But I can't get the computer to just wake up after opening, like it did before.

What can I look at to see what might be the problems here? How did I loose the mouse click? Is anyone else running core 2 on a dell latitiude and also having problems?

[kman]

This thread should help you with the synaptics tapping issue:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2343&highlight=synaptics

[douglas_slac]

Ok, Thanks! Random thing #1453 to remember in linux use. Now the mouse pad can click with a tap. So that is back.

But the power control is still all over the place. No suspend signals through the keyboard. The power button either wakes up the laptop or reboots, exciting. The screen doesn't always come back after suspend, requiring another reboot. And once, the ethernet controller stopped working after suspend, also requiring reboot. I hate to have to reboot everytime a close the lid, with FC1 I had up times in weeks, even though the laptop would be closed and suspended for 20+ hour each day.

[royguy]

Try turning off ACPI in grub.conf. I use APM and have no power control issues with my C610.

[douglas_slac]

Hmm... ok, I was hoping to be able to use all new features in FC2. But I guess that is a good idea, I had been using APM for years, so I can go back to using that and just ignore ACPI for now. Esp. if using ACPI is going to require a reboot every time I come back from suspend, that will quickly start to make the laptop more than useless.

[royguy]

I agree. I went "back" to APM reluctantly. My summers are for outside activities. With the release timing of FC3, I'll have the winter to play with ACPI.

Good luck...