Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:09:44 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Karl Jeacle <karl@jeacle.ie> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! Message-ID: <200007220009.JAA18465@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:10:46 %2B0100." <20000722001046.A79391@eircom.net> References: <6390.964219824@localhost> <200007212257.PAA57003@realtime.exit.com> <20000722001046.A79391@eircom.net>
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>On Fri 21 Jul 00, 15:57:09 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: >> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > I'm almost tempted to declare this a show-stopper for FreeBSD 4.1. >> > Is anyone else even able to reproduce this? >> >> I haven't found any activity that correlates with the symptoms, either. >> It just seems to happen randomly. > >This happens in our office all the time; definitely since early 3.x and >probably before. We use keyboard/mouse/monitor auto-switchers with Win95 >and FreeBSD boxes and often upon boot when going through the switchbox, >this out-of-sync error appears. I've never had it happen when the mouse >is plugged in directly though. FWIW, the switchbox appears as: "psm0: >model IntelliMouse, device ID 3", regardless of what the actual mouse is. > >Karl Jordan's problem is different from yours. As I said many times before, the problem regarding the console switch is very well known, and is difficult to solve in a general way. First, some console switches are not smart enough, or claims to be smart when in fact it only knows about the IntelliMouse. Second, if the machines you are using via the console switch use different OSes (and hence different mouse drivers), there is no guarantee that these OSes put the mouse in the same operating mode. The workaround for this console switch problem is to use simple two or three button mouse, or connect a mouse directly to each machine. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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