Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:44:53 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. |
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:58:20PM -0500, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. > >> > >> My mouse goes crazy for a few secs and then returns to normal for a while. Is this a 2.6.2 problem or is this is something old? > > I've seen this junk for many years. It's not limited to just 2.6. > > In my current environment, it's the KVM screwing with the mouse data... > somehow it starts passing through 3 byte commands when the mouse is in > 4 byte mode. I fixed it by a little trickery to force the mouse to > reset (not a simple task from the ISR :-) BTW, 250ms is WAY to long to > wait to detect a lose of sync; mice don't pause at all between bytes.)
Mice don't, but the kernel does, like when it's accessing the harddrive heavily.
> >here's the fix: > ... > > And exactly what is that supposed to be fixing? > > --Ricky
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