From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 18:20:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16225 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA16145 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp id AA30615; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:19:48 +0900 Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id LAA16829; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:27:22 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199801240227.LAA16829@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: PSM Problems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:08:17 EST." References: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:27:21 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >I updated yesterday from RELENG_2_2 and did the makeworld thing. >I generated a new version of the kernel. >Today, I cannot start X as I get a constant stream of messages as follows: > >psmintr: out of sync (xxxx != 0008) > where xxxx is 0000 or 00c8. > >The mouse pointer sticks in the upper right corner of the screen and >cannot be moved. > >Can anyone advise me where I screwed up? Everything worked fine prior to the >recompiles. > >Regards, >Tom Which brand of PS/2 mice are you using? Would you first try to boot the system with the -v option at the "boot:" prompt and send me the boot messages (dmesg output)? To clear the problem, enter UserConfig when you boot the system and set the flags for the psm driver to 0x100. And the problem should go away. (See the man pages for psm(4)) Kazu