From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262761AbTLNXLJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:11:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262762AbTLNXLJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:11:09 -0500 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.31]:17386 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262761AbTLNXLG (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:11:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:10:37 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Peter Berg Larsen , Santiago Garcia Mantinan , Michal Jaegermann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11 Message-ID: <20031214231037.GS13201@mail.muni.cz> References: <200312081316.47899.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200312081316.47899.dtor_core@ameritech.net> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:16:46PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > You are right, Synaptics does check entire packet and reports it, > unfortunately many (most) distributions kill almost all GPM messages > because it's too noisy. > > Anyway, I wonder if the patch below will help sync problem. If it does > then we can kill the warning message later. > > The patch should apply to -test11 although will complain about offset > as I have some extra stuff in my tree. I did apply. Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 4th byte Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 1st byte Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: psmouse: bad data from KBC - timeout Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver resynced. Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 4th byte Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 1st byte Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: psmouse: bad data from KBC - timeout Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver resynced. However I did notice that it does hurt while xmms is playing (via alsa on i810 card). If I turn off xmms then it is a lot better. It is hard to reproduce those messages without xmms. (mpg123 does it as well as xmms). -- Lukáš Hejtmánek