Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:41:43 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps2 mouse errors Message-ID: <20000817114143.H71098@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <14748.115.748006.95674@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:10:43AM -0400 References: <20000817001624.A22518@jupiter.limit.org> <14748.115.748006.95674@onceler.kciLink.com>
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Vivek Khera stated: : >>>>> "MM" == Michael Matsumura <michael@limit.org> writes: : : MM> I'm using a ps2 Microsoft intellimouse v. 1.1A in XFree86 3.3.6, and : MM> occasionally and randomly my mouse cursor just freezes and my syslog gives : MM> me the following: : : MM> Aug 17 00:09:28 jupiter /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). : : This happened to me yesterday while compiling Mozilla (which took : longer than a "make buildworld"!) The mouse just went haywire, : clicking and moving all about the screen, rearranging my KDE desktop, : and panel items, randomly selecting menu items. It was quite a sight. : : My syslog messages look like this: : : Aug 16 16:31:01 onceler /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). : Aug 16 16:31:33 onceler last message repeated 143 times : Aug 16 16:33:31 onceler last message repeated 594 times : Aug 16 16:40:28 onceler last message repeated 996 times : : Luckily I was able to get to another virtual console and kill things : off cleanly and power cycle the box. Vivek- Funny you should have posted this .. this just happened to me while using netscape (under XFree86-3.3.6 with moused running) to browse cvs-all (of all things!). My mouse (PS/2 3-button Logitech FirstMouse) flipped out (clicking and juming around the screen), and there are lots of reports of psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). The only way to stop it was to CTRL+ALT+F1 one and kill moused (launched as "moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto") and restart it. Things are now back to normal without requiring a reboot. I restared it with "-t ps/2" to see if that makes any difference. Here is how dmesg reports the mouse: Aug 7 13:40:08 feta /kernel: psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 Aug 7 13:40:08 feta /kernel: psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 (This is on 4.1-S cvsup'd on the 6th of August). I think there are some subtle timing issues in syscons code or in moused that are really ugly and have been around since just after 4.0-RELEASE (eg. my notebook .. Sony Vaio 505-TR with a Versapad in it will not cut and paste in X if I use moused ..) and I see a lot of intermittent psmintr errors on various machines in the department (using either ps/2 MS Wheelie mice or ps/2 Logitech mice). S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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