From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 16:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA24679 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA24669; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA10434; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:50:24 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611280020.KAA10434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.0-current PS/2 mouse driver change In-Reply-To: <199611272318.IAA09541@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Nov 28, 96 08:18:55 am" To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:50:22 +1030 (CST) Cc: louie@transsys.com, sos@freebsd.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[