From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 22 10:19:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F201A37BA6D for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16975; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:19:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01504; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:19:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:19:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007221719.LAA01504@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Karl Jeacle , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! In-Reply-To: <200007220009.JAA18465@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <6390.964219824@localhost> <200007212257.PAA57003@realtime.exit.com> <20000722001046.A79391@eircom.net> <200007220009.JAA18465@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> > I'm almost tempted to declare this a show-stopper for FreeBSD 4.1. > >> > Is anyone else even able to reproduce this? > >> > >> I haven't found any activity that correlates with the symptoms, either. > >> It just seems to happen randomly. > > > >This happens in our office all the time; definitely since early 3.x and > >probably before. We use keyboard/mouse/monitor auto-switchers with Win95 > >and FreeBSD boxes and often upon boot when going through the switchbox, > >this out-of-sync error appears. I've never had it happen when the mouse > >is plugged in directly though. FWIW, the switchbox appears as: "psm0: > >model IntelliMouse, device ID 3", regardless of what the actual mouse is. > > > >Karl > > Jordan's problem is different from yours. > > As I said many times before, the problem regarding the console > switch is very well known, and is difficult to solve in a general > way. > > First, some console switches are not smart enough, or > claims to be smart when in fact it only knows about the IntelliMouse. > > Second, if the machines you are using via the console switch > use different OSes (and hence different mouse drivers), there is > no guarantee that these OSes put the mouse in the same operating > mode. > I'm wondering if my laptop acts like a console switch, since it'll switch back/forth from the 'internal' mouse to the external mouse if I plug the external mouse in. However, if I force it to probe my mouse as an older model, it works fine (but w/out the additional features (scroller) of the newer mouse.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message