From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 18:37:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC2A16A4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.heronetwork.com (mail.heronetwork.com [216.254.62.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651D043FDD for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:37:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmerrick@heronetwork.com) Received: by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 51B3DA6345; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heronetwork.com (unknown [216.254.62.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A98EA62F5; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F6BAF23.5000202@heronetwork.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:36:35 -0700 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Silver References: <200309191656.17804.dsilver@urchin.com> In-Reply-To: <200309191656.17804.dsilver@urchin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 psm mouse failing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:37:12 -0000 Doug Silver wrote: > Ok, I'm now getting frustrated and desperate. I have a 4.8-stable desktop, > splitting input devices with a Windoze box from a Belkin Omniview. In the > last few weeks, the mouse (a standard Gateway ps2) is getting stuck on a > fairly consistent basis. Sometime I'm able to lock my desktop, switch over > to the second box, then back and *if* the mouse reactivates, it will jump all > over the place and would open/close windows and apps if the desktop was not > locked (that was a painful lesson). > > Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1). > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2). > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (3). > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > /kernel: psmintr: re-enable the mouse. > /kernel: psmintr: delay too long; resetting byte count > > If it gets to here, nothing I can do but reboot: > /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (19). > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > /kernel: psmintr: reset the mouse. > /kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. > /kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). > reboot: rebooted by dsilver > syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > > Any suggestions?? > > TIA. > > -doug > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I use to get this and removing the flags on atkbd in the kernel seemed to help cut down on how often it happened. When it would happen in windows I would unplug the mouse from the KVM and plug it back in. -Ryan Merrick