From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 17:53:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D1D16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:53:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B352A43D45 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j86HrPTW046318 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j86HrOVF040846 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j86HrNUb040845 for FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) X-Authentication-Warning: realtime.exit.com: frank set sender to frank@exit.com using -f From: Frank Mayhar To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Exit Consulting Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:53:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1126029203.37886.4.camel@realtime.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1066/Tue Sep 6 04:42:41 2005 on tinker.exit.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Serious mouse problems on latest 5-stable. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:53:25 -0000 After I returned from my vacation last week, I set about upgrading my systems to the latest -stable. The short version of the story is that I had to fall back to an earlier version, since the psm driver has been made essentially unusable. I saw a thread about psm-related panics but I didn't see those; rather I saw what appeared to be very serious loss of either characters or interrupts. I suspect the latter since "systat -vmstat" reported a tiny fraction of the number of interrupts that should have been generated by mouse movement (on the order of 5%). This was with a kernel and world as of 9/1. I dropped back to a kernel from 8/10 and all was well. I haven't had a chance to further narrow this down, but I just wanted to check whether this is a known problem...? -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/