From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261614AbTJ1T0R (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:26:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261644AbTJ1T0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:26:16 -0500 Received: from host217-37-214-121.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.37.214.121]:61563 "HELO filmlight.ltd.uk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261614AbTJ1T0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9EC2D1.1050707@filmlight.ltd.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:26:09 +0000 From: Christopher Fraser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Mouse and keyboard problems with 2.6.0-test9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been having mouse and keyboard problems with kernels since 2.6.0-test6 (at least). The machine I'm testign with has a Supermicro X5DA8 (Intel E7507 chipset) motherboard with two 3Ghz Xeon CPUs and was install with Red Hat 9 and updates modutils, kinitrd etc. When doing large amounts of I/O (we're reading > 300MB/s from disk, processing it and downloading it across AGP) while running XFree86 the psmouse gets into a state where it loses synchronisation and cannot recover. The pointer warps to the top right of the desktop and moving the mouse generates spurious mouse down events. Switching to a virtual console and back to the X desktop sometimes recovers, but usually not. I've tried the psmouse_noext option, various rates including 200 (which seemed to make things better for a while) and the recent psmouse_rate with the rate to 0 without success. I've also tried a generic Dell wheelmouse and and one of those optical Microsoft Intellimouse things. The keyboard problem is that atkbd.c gets into a state where it starts generating message like the following for each key press: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x0, data 0x0, on isa0060/serio0) These flood the console, making the machine difficult to use. This mostly happens when I switch between XFree86 and virtual consoles, so it may be due to my generic PS2 keyboard generating spurious release events (as mentioned previously ). Commenting out the warning in atkdb.c makes the console usable again. Any suggestions on things to try would be greatfully appreciated. Regards, Christopher.