From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261640AbTJHSGu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:06:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261659AbTJHSGu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:06:50 -0400 Received: from nika.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu ([137.229.94.16]:29332 "EHLO nika.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261640AbTJHSGs (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:06:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:08:10 -0800 From: Christopher Swingley To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.0-test6, psmouse.c, lost synchronization Message-ID: <20031008180810.GE3933@iarc.uaf.edu> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-gpg-fingerprint: B96C 58DC 0643 F8FE C9D0 8F55 1542 1A4F 0698 252E X-gpg-key: [http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/gnupgkey.asc] X-URL: [http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/] X-Editor: VIM [http://www.vim.org] X-message-flag: Consider Linux: fast, reliable, secure & free! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings! I recently got a new laptop (Intel Brookdale Chipset, Pentium 4) and I'm having trouble with the mouse. * Short version: the kernel sees the Synaptics touchpad, but X doesn't (using the 0.11.7 userspace synaptics X module). X (without the synaptics module) understands the touchpad and my external PS/2 trackball, but I periodically get very erratic behavior from the external mouse and synchronization errors from psmouse.c. I don't care about the touchpad, but would like my external PS/2 mouse to work properly in X. * Long version: It has a touchpad, which the kernel reports on bootup as: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 Firmware: 4.6 \ 180 degree mounted touchpad \ Sensor: 18 new absolute packet format \ Touchpad has extended capability bits -> four buttons \ -> multifinger detection \ -> palm detection input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 I installed the latest synaptics driver (0.11.7) and configured XF864.1 according to the INSTALL file. X reports: (II) xfree driver for the synaptics touchpad 0.11.7 Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 (EE) no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware But I also have a PS/2 mouse config in my XF86Config-4, and it loads this pointer. In X, the touchpad appears to work just fine, but the PS/2 mouse I have plugged into the PS/2 port occasionally behaves erratically, and causes kernel messages like this: kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio3/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away I don't really care too much about the touchpad because I always use an external PS/2 trackball anyway, but I would like it to work. Config / more detail available on request. Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/