From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 11 17: 7:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202E637B409 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.137.15.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.137.15]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA28000; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B75C8F5.344D1520@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:08:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Tobin Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Sean Kelly , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach References: <200108112351.AAA26897@banks.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Tobin wrote: > > > In addition, the PS/2 mouse driver is smart enough to bitch > > about synchronization, but too stupid to resynchronize (reset) > > when it happens. Duh. > > This is presumably the problem that I see if I over-eagerly grab the > mouse before X has started up properly. The mouse is frozen, but > restarting X (or just switching to the console and back) fixes it. > Typical log output: > > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > last message repeated 1169 times Yes. If it knows the damn thing is out of sync, it should damn well put it back in sync. Stupid damn driver, trapping for errors it doesn't know how to handle... -- Tery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message