From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 9:30:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C88A37B83B for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4C2E881 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:29:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA89300; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:29:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kciLink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14748.4868.93906.669968@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:29:56 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps2 mouse errors In-Reply-To: <399C0C26.EEA0EE8F@cequrux.com> References: <20000817001624.A22518@jupiter.limit.org> <14748.115.748006.95674@onceler.kciLink.com> <20000817114143.H71098@stat.Duke.EDU> <399C0C26.EEA0EE8F@cequrux.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "GW" == Graham Wheeler writes: GW> one to solve. Personally I suspect it is due to nested or lost GW> interrupts; unfortunately the PS/2 mouse doesn't have a proper GW> framing protocol which makes synchronisation difficult if any data GW> is ever lost. Would it make sense that when such an error is detected, ie, the kernel reports the "psmintr: out of sync" message it could reset the device instead of going haywire? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message