From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 19 14:35:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512A237B4C0 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630D43E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pnmurphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from earth.upton.net (d141-18-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.18.230]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BE3C4F89; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:36:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:35:19 -0500 From: Paul Murphy To: FreeBSD Hardware Cc: Rob Zietlow Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync error messages Message-Id: <20021119173519.6391c380.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.KaWaz0hoortx.m" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=.KaWaz0hoortx.m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:40:08 -0600 (CST) Rob Zietlow wrote: > Good morning list. I've come across a weird error. > > For the last couple weeks I've come across errors in my dmesg output > saying the following > > psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000). > psmintr: discard a byte (1). > psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000). > psmintr: discard a byte (2). > > I seem to recall a message that said switching to a console and then switching back to X helps "resync" the mouse. > > I have a Microsoft Opitcal mouse plugged into my PS2 port. I looked > around on google and all I found was a discussion where someone was > plugged into a KVM switch, and this discussion was from back in Jan of > 2001. And aside from a discussion on Security and KVM's not much > amounted from this. Last night my PS2 port went on my machine none of > the 10 PS2 mice I have around the house would work. **grumble** and I switched to USB after looking up > various usb mouse tutorials I followed the directions and when I plug in > the USB port I get lots of scrolling and highlighting on my screen, my > mouse flies up into the upper corner of my screen and I see many of the I have had this happen when I have the wrong Option "Protocol" and/or Option "Device" in XF86Config > psmintr messages. When I try to cat /dev/ums0 I get "device not > configured" even after running './MAKEDEV ums0' Mouse works fine via > PS2 without psmintr messages on other 4 machines around the house (3 BSD > 4.7 and 1 win2k) > > > > Now my questions. > 1) What is cause of the error messages > 2) How, if at all can we fix this? I would like to keep my mobo, don't > totally feel like going out to buy a new one, especially if I could get my > mouse to work via USB. > > Hardware > > MSI 6330 Lite motherboard with Via chipset. As I said earlier Mouse is > MS opitcal mouse. Any suggestions/thoughts would be appreciated. > > > Thanks for the help, please CC me since I'm not on the list. > > Rob > > -- Cogeco ergo sum --=.KaWaz0hoortx.m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE92ryu82ph/1PmrWARAg+lAJ47C+66XYcUIjB3MpPfLDl8GJ/ofQCfSOzu WZFWJNhasJzKz30u5hKJbxQ= =Pjfg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.KaWaz0hoortx.m-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message