Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:32:56 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice? Message-ID: <200005220332.MAA07281@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 2000 20:55:28 CST." <200005220255.UAA66468@billy-club.village.org> References: <3970.958963729@localhost> <200005220255.UAA66468@billy-club.village.org>
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>: May 19 00:50:45 zippy /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). >: >: I've seen it for the last few weeks and can only think that something >: must be stomping on the psm driver now (or the driver is missing >: interrupts for reasons of its own). Anyone else seeing this? > >I see this from time to time on whacked out mice that come into my >posession. Sadly, I see it most on my laptop. It seems to happen >less offten when I have > PSM_HOOKRESUME > PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND >defined in my kernel config file. > >I've also seen this when I've tried to hot plug mice. This includes >when power is lost to my KVM switch. When that happens, I gotta >reboot all the machines that are attached to it since something is >whacko at that point, I get those messages, or worse no mice and no >message at all. When power to the mouse is, either accidentally or intentionally, cut, the internal setting of the mouse is naturally lost, and the mouse may behave in a different way than the way the psm driver assumes... >Hmmm, time for a good ioctl interface to newbus :-) Or, an ioctl to reset the mouse... I have long rejected this idea because it will only encourage people to detach and attach the PS/2 mouse, which is generally not capable of hot plug/unplug. But, there now are so many dumb KVMs which screw us, and we may have to accept that... Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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