From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 18: 8:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from valis.worldgate.ca (valis.worldgate.ca [198.161.84.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F290C37C5EA for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skafte@worldgate.ca) Received: from worldgate.ca (diskless4.worldgate.ca [198.161.84.132]) by valis.worldgate.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA41270; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:55:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from skafte@worldgate.ca) Message-ID: <3978E2EB.2C145A3A@worldgate.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:55:23 -0600 From: Greg Skafte Organization: WorldGate Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! References: <6390.964219824@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------838F23249C47EB249EC5FA2A" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------838F23249C47EB249EC5FA2A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I do occasionally get this under both RELENG_3 and RELENG_4 machines running moused and X when using logictech ps2 mice. I haven't had it happen with non-logictech mice...... it's inconvenient when it happens, but has not happend suffiently often to really hunt down what was happening, killing and restating moused fixed the the problem..... "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > 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. > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Email: skafte@worldgate.ca Voice: +780 413 1910 Fax: +780 421 4929 #575 Sun Life Place * 10123 99 Street * Edmonton, AB * Canada * T5J 3H1 -- -- When things can't get any worse, they simplify themselves by getting a whole lot worse then complicated. A complete and utter disaster is the simplest thing in the world; it's preventing one that's complex. (Janet Morris) --------------838F23249C47EB249EC5FA2A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="skafte.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Greg Skafte Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="skafte.vcf" begin:vcard n:Skafte;Greg tel;pager:+1 (780) 491 4791 tel;cell:+1 (780) 718 1570 tel;fax:+1 (780) 421 4929 tel;work:+1 (780) 413 1910 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:;Network Operations adr:;;#575 10123 99 Street;Edmonton;Alberta;T5J 3H1;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:Skafte@worldgate.ca title:Operations Manager x-mozilla-cpt:;29088 fn:Greg Skafte end:vcard --------------838F23249C47EB249EC5FA2A-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message