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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! 
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:59:46 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>At first I was laboring under the assumption that this was an
>SMP-related problem and, while intensely irritating on my box "zippy",
>I figured it would at least only bite a small number of people and
>only in -current.
>
>Now I've switched over to a single-CPU box running RELENG_4 and this
>problem is, indeed, very much there.  It's a really _bad_ problem 
>given that the mouse goes absolutely nuts during these intervals
>and you *will* have bogus contents selected and pasted into your
>xterms at random intervals.  Depending on what was cut and pasted,
>the results could be pretty nasty.

Hmmm, I haven't been able to recreate this problem in my 5-CURRENT
and 4-STABLE boxes so far...  Ok, I will try to test on other boxes.

Kazu

>I'm almost tempted to declare this a show-stopper for FreeBSD 4.1.
>Is anyone else even able to reproduce this?
>
>To really feel its effects under X, enable and use moused, otherwise
>you can still feel its effects even if you use the PS/2 mouse device
>directly.
>
>- Jordan


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