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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:50:22 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Cc:        louie@transsys.com, sos@freebsd.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-3.0-current PS/2 mouse driver change
Message-ID:  <199611280020.KAA10434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199611272318.IAA09541@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Nov 28, 96 08:18:55 am"

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Kazutaka YOKOTA stands accused of saying:
> 
> BTW, that bit is said to be always 1, according to some docs. Now that
> I know the bit is not set in that way, there will be no way to re-sync
> with the data packet from the PS/2 mouse once we have become out of
> sync (due to lost interrupt or something) ;-<

This is traditional PS/2 mouse brokenness, and the correct way to deal
with it is to resync to zero after a pause in the incoming data.  It's
a pain 8(

> Kazu 

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