Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:08:10 -0800 | From | Christopher Swingley <> | Subject | 2.6.0-test6, psmouse.c, lost synchronization |
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Greetings!
I recently got a new laptop (Intel Brookdale Chipset, Pentium 4) and I'm having trouble with the mouse.
* Short version: the kernel sees the Synaptics touchpad, but X doesn't (using the 0.11.7 userspace synaptics X module). X (without the synaptics module) understands the touchpad and my external PS/2 trackball, but I periodically get very erratic behavior from the external mouse and synchronization errors from psmouse.c.
I don't care about the touchpad, but would like my external PS/2 mouse to work properly in X.
* Long version: It has a touchpad, which the kernel reports on bootup as:
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 Firmware: 4.6 \ 180 degree mounted touchpad \ Sensor: 18 new absolute packet format \ Touchpad has extended capability bits -> four buttons \ -> multifinger detection \ -> palm detection input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
I installed the latest synaptics driver (0.11.7) and configured XF864.1 according to the INSTALL file. X reports:
(II) xfree driver for the synaptics touchpad 0.11.7 Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 (EE) no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware
But I also have a PS/2 mouse config in my XF86Config-4, and it loads this pointer.
In X, the touchpad appears to work just fine, but the PS/2 mouse I have plugged into the PS/2 port occasionally behaves erratically, and causes kernel messages like this:
kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio3/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away
I don't really care too much about the touchpad because I always use an external PS/2 trackball anyway, but I would like it to work.
Config / more detail available on request.
Thanks!
Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/
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