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SubjectRe: Really annoying bug in the mouse driver
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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 01:08, Victor Hahn wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> >Any luck with the patch?
> >
>
> I'm using 2.6.11rc2 with the patch for some hours now and it seems as if
> it doesn't throw away bytes any more which makes linux 2.6 useable for
> me again - thanks a lot!

It still complains in dmesg about throwing away bytes, right? Please try
loading the box some more to make sure mouse survives some abuse.

> I just encountered one smaller issue (this
> really is much better than before): The mouse just "jumped" once and
> then got back to normal immediately. This gives me the following message
> in /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
>

Your keyboard controller reported that the byte transmitted from the mouse
was mangled somehow and we should not trust it. I am not sure why it would
make mouse jump.. was there any mention of "reconnect" in the logs? Did it
happen just once?

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Dmitry
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