Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mouse problems in 2.4.2 -> lost byte | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:19:33 -0600 (CST) | From | linas@linas ... |
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It's been rumoured that Vojtech Pavlik said: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:31:52PM +0200, Gunther Mayer wrote: > > linas@linas.org wrote: > > > It's been rumoured that Gunther Mayer said: > > > > linas@linas.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am experiencing debilitating intermittent mouse problems & was about > > > > > > > > This is easily explained: some byte of the mouse protocol was lost. > > > > > Getting resync right is not as easy as detecting zero bytes. You > > should account for wild protocol variations in the world wide mouse > > population, too. > > The new input psmouse driver can resync when bytes are lost and also > shouldn't lose any bytes if there are not transmission problems on the > wire. But this is 2.5 stuff.
umm linux kernel 2.5? Umm, given that a stable linux 2.6/3.0 might be years away ... and this seems 'minor', wouldn't it be better to submit this as a teeny-weeny new kind of mouse device driver as a 2.4.x patch? e.g. CONFIG_MOUSE_PSAUX_SUPERSYNC or something? I mean this cant be more than a few hundred lines of code? Requireing no other changes to the kernel?
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