It seems that this bug is triggered by the following commit, which has been tested to fix the issue on Maverick. This fix is already in Natty, and has been proposed for SRU to Maverick:
commit f8313ef1f448006207f12c107123522c8bc00f15
Author: Jiri Kosina <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jan 8 01:37:26 2011 -0800
Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
It seems that this bug is triggered by the following commit, which has been tested to fix the issue on Maverick. This fix is already in Natty, and has been proposed for SRU to Maverick:
commit f8313ef1f448006 207f12c10712352 2c8bc00f15
Author: Jiri Kosina <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jan 8 01:37:26 2011 -0800
Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
timeouts.
Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.
In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <email address hidden>