From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 16:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCEA37BCB7 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA81443; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007212318.QAA81443@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! In-Reply-To: <6390.964219824@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 21, 2000 03:50:24 pm" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > At first I was laboring under the assumption that this was an > SMP-related problem and, while intensely irritating on my box "zippy", > I figured it would at least only bite a small number of people and > only in -current. > > Now I've switched over to a single-CPU box running RELENG_4 and this > problem is, indeed, very much there. It's a really _bad_ problem > given that the mouse goes absolutely nuts during these intervals > and you *will* have bogus contents selected and pasted into your > xterms at random intervals. Depending on what was cut and pasted, > the results could be pretty nasty. > > I'm almost tempted to declare this a show-stopper for FreeBSD 4.1. > Is anyone else even able to reproduce this? > > To really feel its effects under X, enable and use moused, otherwise > you can still feel its effects even if you use the PS/2 mouse device > directly. > > - Jordan FWIW, I have almost _never_ seen this. The only time I ever get this is if I am moving the mouse when I hit the console switch on my 4-port console switch, but it corrects itself almost instantaneously. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message