Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:52:53 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [2.5.54-dj1-bk] Some interesting experiences... |
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:51:07AM +0100, Anders Gustafsson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:21:46PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > > > 3. [linux-2.5] PS/2 mouse goes haywire every 30 seconds or so of use. > > dmesg sayeth: > > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > > input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 > > > > but more importantly this is the cause: > > > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. > > This happens here too. But not that frequent at all, more like once every > hour. And has happend on all kernels since at least 2.5.46 [1]. > > However 5 hours ago I changed the timeout in psmouse.c from 50ms to 100ms. > And now it haven't misbehaved yet, but that might be just some nightly luck. > Is there something that turns off interupts or something and hinders the > mouse driver from processing the data for such long time? Or is my hardware > just buggy?
That I'd like to know, too. In the worst case, we can make the timeout be half a second, or more - it'd just mean that for a resync you would have to not touch the mouse this long if really a byte is lost.
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103688231622278&w=2 > > -- > Anders Gustafsson - andersg@0x63.nu - http://0x63.nu/
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