Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:52:31 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: psmouse.c, throwing 3 bytes away |
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:49:51PM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:09:55AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:15:32PM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote: > > > > > > > I saw the same here yesterday, using a logitech wheel mouse: > > > > > > > > > > Feb 4 18:19:46 vega kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 > > > > > lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. > > > > > > > > > > Before this happened the mouse in X just went nuts with random clicks in > > > > > many windows, but after that it's been ok up to now. > > > > > > > > > I've been suffering this same problem ever since upgrade to 2.6 kernel. > > > > > > > > FYI, here is an article giving some possible solutions to this, but I > > > > failed to fix my mouse problem by any method it suggests: > > > > > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2199 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just FYI: > > > > > > This annoying mouse problem hasn't shown up for 3 days, after I did a > > > 'hdparm -u1 /dev/hda'. But be sure to read the hdparm man page before > > > doing this on your box. > > > > I think you're looking for 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda', if your mainboard is > > not very very old. That'll have a better effect. > > > > using_dma was already turned on, before I tried that '-u1'. At least in > my case, turning on using_dma alone didn't seem to help much. > > Thanks for the hint.
That's interesting, because -d1 makes -u1 irrelevant, -u1 is for PIO accesses only, and -d1 switches to DMA mode.
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