From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 17:49:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DD216A4B3; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51ED43F3F; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:49:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9O0mwhk070454; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:18:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Harding , luoqi@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:18:57 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031023141503.4004C53C7@netcom1.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20031023141503.4004C53C7@netcom1.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310241018.57314.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible mouse/ATA problems in -STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:49:06 -0000 On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:45, Mike Harding wrote: > My mouse has been losing sync several times a day and then eventually > disappearing, requiring, AFAIK, a reboot to make the system usable. > It's possible that this is hardware on my end, but I did change mice > and I still have the same problem. This may be related to some recent > mfc ATA changes at this only seems to happen during periods of high > disk activity. Also, the mouse seems to generate almost 300 > interrupts per second at times. > > I am going to back my system down to sept. 1 and see if I get the > problem again, and will advise if this seems to 'fix' it. > > When the mouse goes it looks like this: > > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psmintr: reset the mouse. > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! > (reinitialize). Personally.. I'd either buy a PS/2 to USB converter or a USB mouse :) PS/2 is a pain in the ass after you've used USB mice.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5