Re: psmouse.c, throwing 3 bytes away

[Isaac Claymore]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:20:23PM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:54:44AM +0000, Claudio Martins wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:20, Walt Nelson wrote:
> > > My mouse has been acting wired occationally, not all the time. I receive
> > > the following error in the syslog. This has been happening since 2.6.2-RC3.
> > > I am currently using 2.6.2. Are these related?
> > >
> > > Feb  4 13:56:02 gumby kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at
> > > isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
> > >
> > > The following occurs when starting KDE/X.
> > > Feb  4 18:05:11 gumby kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set
> > > 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> > > Feb  4 18:05:11 gumby kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't
> > > access hardware directly.
> > > Feb  4 18:05:11 gumby kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set
> > > 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> > > Feb  4 18:05:11 gumby kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't
> > > access hardware directly.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> >   I saw the same here yesterday, using a logitech wheel mouse:
> > 
> > Feb  4 18:19:46 vega kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 
> > lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
> > 
> >   Before this happened the mouse in X just went nuts with random clicks in 
> > many windows, but after that it's been ok up to now.
> > 
> I've been suffering this same problem ever since upgrade to 2.6 kernel.
> 
> FYI, here is an article giving some possible solutions to this, but I
> failed to fix my mouse problem by any method it suggests:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2199
> 
> 

Just FYI:

This annoying mouse problem hasn't shown up for 3 days, after I did a 
'hdparm -u1 /dev/hda'. But be sure to read the hdparm man page before 
doing this on your box.


> >   FYI the mouse is detected as: 
> > 
> > Feb  4 08:57:42 vega kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> > Feb  4 08:57:42 vega kernel: input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse on 
> > isa0060/serio1
> > 
> >   The motherboard is an Intel 440BX2 with a PII-350 running kernel 2.6.2.
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Claudio
> > 
> > 
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