Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:19:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Karl Jeacle <karl@jeacle.ie>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! Message-ID: <200007221719.LAA01504@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200007220009.JAA18465@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <6390.964219824@localhost> <200007212257.PAA57003@realtime.exit.com> <20000722001046.A79391@eircom.net> <200007220009.JAA18465@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> >> > I'm almost tempted to declare this a show-stopper for FreeBSD 4.1. > >> > Is anyone else even able to reproduce this? > >> > >> I haven't found any activity that correlates with the symptoms, either. > >> It just seems to happen randomly. > > > >This happens in our office all the time; definitely since early 3.x and > >probably before. We use keyboard/mouse/monitor auto-switchers with Win95 > >and FreeBSD boxes and often upon boot when going through the switchbox, > >this out-of-sync error appears. I've never had it happen when the mouse > >is plugged in directly though. FWIW, the switchbox appears as: "psm0: > >model IntelliMouse, device ID 3", regardless of what the actual mouse is. > > > >Karl > > Jordan's problem is different from yours. > > As I said many times before, the problem regarding the console > switch is very well known, and is difficult to solve in a general > way. > > First, some console switches are not smart enough, or > claims to be smart when in fact it only knows about the IntelliMouse. > > Second, if the machines you are using via the console switch > use different OSes (and hence different mouse drivers), there is > no guarantee that these OSes put the mouse in the same operating > mode. > I'm wondering if my laptop acts like a console switch, since it'll switch back/forth from the 'internal' mouse to the external mouse if I plug the external mouse in. However, if I force it to probe my mouse as an older model, it works fine (but w/out the additional features (scroller) of the newer mouse.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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