From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 23 22:34:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.flashcom.net (3ff83059.dsl.flashcom.net [63.248.48.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC0037B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgaff@localhost) by mail.flashcom.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9O5W6i35723; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:32:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cgaff) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:32:06 -0500 From: "Corey G." To: Graham Wheeler Cc: Randy Primeaux , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps2 mouse errors (solution) Message-ID: <20001024003206.C35579@flashcom.net> References: <200008182038.NAA10998@relay.ultimanet.com> <39A0E829.B183E24C@cequrux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39A0E829.B183E24C@cequrux.com>; from gram@cequrux.com on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:28:25AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed three new installations of FreeBSD 4.1.1 in the last 8 days. All three systems entirely different. One system with a Logitech 3 button mouse, one with a Microsoft 2 button and another off brand 2 button mouse. All three machines have seen the psmintr: out of sync error. Each machine needed to be rebooted to alleviate the problem. One thing in common, the Enlightenment window manager was being used on all three systems. I also noticed that one of the machines displayed the behavior shortly after increasing the mouse sensitivity via the KDE control panel in Enlightenment. The default kernel was in place during these errors except for the Athon system. Machine 1: PIII 500 - Compaq Machine 2: Athon 800 Machine 3. PIII 300 - Compaq On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:28:25AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Randy Primeaux wrote: > > > > In my opinion, I do not see this as a flaw in psm, as the flag is > > documented in the man page, and FreeBSD psm is not the only software > > with this issue. Other mouse software, on other OS platforms, also > > lose ps/2 sync through a keyboard-video-mouse switch. > > [Sigh] I'll say it again. There are TWO separate problems here, both of > which will manifest as lost sync and the `out-of-sync' error message. > One of them is due to the use of KVM boxes. The other isn't - it occurs, > for example, on my Compaq laptop using the built-in touchpad, and has > affected other people as well. I maintain that the latter is due to a > bug or oversight in the psm driver, as tweaking the code in this driver > has allowed me to circumvent the problem. However, my tweaks deal with > the symptoms; I have not identified the underlying cause other than that > it seems to be related to spurious data (rather than lost data). > > gram > -- > Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com > Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com > CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 > Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- -- Best Regards, Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message