Re: psmouse.c, throwing 3 bytes away

From: Isaac Claymore
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 05:18:47 EST


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


> 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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