From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 8: 3:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FDA37B7FC for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6PF0Rb28576; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:00:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B5EDF0A.3080706@magpage.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:00:26 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010702 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Holland King Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Holland King wrote: > since i have hooked up a kvm i have started to get this message: > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008) > i get this message when the mouse is working correctly. when it > doesn't work i lose control of the mouse and keyboard. what does it mean > and more importantly what can i do to fix it? thank you. > from man pcm... Driver Flags bit 8 NOCHECKSYNC The psm driver tries to detect the first byte of the data packet by checking the bit pattern of that byte. Although this method should work with most PS/2 pointing devices, it may interfere with some devices which are not so compatible with known devices. If you think your pointing device is not functioning as expected, and the kernel frequently prints the following message to the console, psmintr: out of sync (xxxx != yyyy). set this flag to disable synchronization check and see if it helps. to set this flag recompile a kernel with "flags 0x100" added to the end of the psm line. device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 flags 0x100 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message