From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 21:48:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5106C37B401; Thu, 1 May 2003 21:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.loproc.dk (port63.ds1-gr.adsl.cybercity.dk [217.157.138.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A8343FCB; Thu, 1 May 2003 21:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from loproc@loproc.dk) Received: by mail.loproc.dk (Postfix, from userid 48) id 015501FC149; Fri, 2 May 2003 06:49:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from s4 ( [s4]) as user loproc@localhost by 192.168.0.2 with HTTP; Fri, 2 May 2003 06:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <1051850969.3eb1f8d9c5c34@192.168.0.2> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 06:49:29 +0200 From: Martin Kruse Jensen To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <1051816899.3eb173c3ef44a@192.168.0.2> <1051816899.3eb173c3ef44a@192.168.0.2> <20030501210042.GC1314@wuRstmensch.home.de> <1051816899.3eb173c3ef44a@192.168.0.2> <001901c3101e$afbe8d70$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> <1051816899.3eb173c3ef44a@192.168.0.2> <20030502024335.GC63209@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502024335.GC63209@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.0.4 cc: John Bleichert cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mouse problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 04:48:33 -0000 Citat Greg 'groggy' Lehey : > On Thursday, 1 May 2003 at 21:21:39 +0200, Martin Kruse Jensen wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have some problems with my mouse; When I move it in console, I get a lot > of > > messages like the following: > > > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0028 != 00c8). > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1). > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 00c8). > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2). > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00e8 != 00c8). > > May 1 21:12:41 ws /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (3). > > > > When I try to run X the mouse jumps to the top right corner. Anyone > > know how to fix this? > > That depends on which version of FreeBSD you're running. On earlier > versions you had to reboot. More recent versions can recover by > themselves. In case of doubt, stop X and restart it. I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 but the problem is in the console as well as X. The mouse is a PS/2 Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical. > > This normally happens when you lose a number of interrupts, either > because the system is overloaded or because you disconnected the > mouse. In the latter case, "don't do that, then". In the former > case, if you find the mouse is reacting very sluggishly, usually an > indication of heavy interrupt load, don't use it until the interrupt > load drops a bit. The machine has been running overnight now, and the problem persists. The machine is currently running no ressource demanding services, so load ought to be pretty low. > > On Thursday, 1 May 2003 at 17:01:49 -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > > On Thu, 1 May 2003, Martin Kruse Jensen wrote: > > > >> > >> When I try to run X the mouse jumps to the top right corner. Anyone know > how to > >> fix this? > > > > I've had this happen if the frequencies chosen for my monitor in > > xf86config are not exactly correct. > > Was it also the night before the full moon? There are all sorts of > coincidences. But the monitor frequency doesn't have anything to do > with this problem. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers >