From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 12:56:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAD81065697 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03EB8FC1F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C21146B23; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:56:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.10]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73F7F8A009; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:56:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:46:08 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.4-CBSD-20110107; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102110746.08264.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:56:52 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00,MAY_BE_FORGED, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Benjamin Kaduk Subject: Re: tale of a disappearing mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:56:54 -0000 On Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:31:45 pm Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been experiencing this issue for quite some time, but never really > managed to collect all the data that seemed useful in one place for the > same kernel. I think I now have enough to ask for help. > > Sometimes, when I boot my laptop (Lenovo T400), my pointing device will > just ... not be probed. Early on, this seemed to happen maybe half the > time, though recently it has been much less common. (Possibly correlated > to the presence of an OpenAFS client on this machine, which makes no > sense.) > > Verbose dmesg for the mouse and nomouse case may be found at: > http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/kaduk/freebsd/hysteresis/ > > The relevant-seeming portion of the diff is: > @@ -602,10 +602,16 @@ > psm0: unable to allocate IRQ > psmcpnp0: irq 12 on acpi0 > psm0: current command byte:0047 > -psm0: failed to reset the aux device. Hmm, I think this is causing the attach to fail and is probably the root cause? I'm not an expert on PS/2 devices though, so I'd probably start instrumenting that code to figure out exactly what is failing and maybe try making a timeout longer, etc.? -- John Baldwin