Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 00:06, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:40:35 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became
> > > impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of
> > > modified files open :-)
> 
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> 
> > 1. Have you tried using external PS/2 mouse?
> > 2. Have you plugged/unplugged into a port replicator?
> 
> I have Dell Latitude D600, which does not have an external PS/2 port.
> 
> But actually, I was caught away from home, working from a library, so I did
> not have either PS/2 or USB mouse. I moved the cursor persistently for a
> few minutes until I managed to raise a window in such way that it got the
> focus, then I saved all files and closed all windows from the keyboard,
> so no harm done, no problem.
> 
> The kernel was running without resetafter set, unfortunately.
> 
> If you have a patch which prints offending data from pktbuffer, I can
> run that next time.
> 

No I don't but by the looks of it (constant stream of bad data) it looks
like somehow the touhcpad was reset back into PS/2 compatibility mode.
resetafter would catch it and reinitialize touchpad restoring proper
protocol.

-- 
Dmitry