Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:18:57 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>, luoqi@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible mouse/ATA problems in -STABLE Message-ID: <200310241018.57314.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031023141503.4004C53C7@netcom1.netcom.com> References: <20031023141503.4004C53C7@netcom1.netcom.com>
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On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:45, Mike Harding wrote: > My mouse has been losing sync several times a day and then eventually > disappearing, requiring, AFAIK, a reboot to make the system usable. > It's possible that this is hardware on my end, but I did change mice > and I still have the same problem. This may be related to some recent > mfc ATA changes at this only seems to happen during periods of high > disk activity. Also, the mouse seems to generate almost 300 > interrupts per second at times. > > I am going to back my system down to sept. 1 and see if I get the > problem again, and will advise if this seems to 'fix' it. > > When the mouse goes it looks like this: > > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psmintr: reset the mouse. > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. > Oct 22 08:53:58 netcom1 /kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! > (reinitialize). Personally.. I'd either buy a PS/2 to USB converter or a USB mouse :) PS/2 is a pain in the ass after you've used USB mice.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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