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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Victor Hahn <victorhahn@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Really annoying bug in the mouse driver
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:26:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502020126.37621.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42006E79.7070503@web.de>

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 01:08, Victor Hahn wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> >Any luck with the patch?
> >
> 
> I'm using 2.6.11rc2 with the patch for some hours now and it seems as if 
> it doesn't throw away bytes any more which makes linux 2.6 useable for 
> me again - thanks a lot!

It still complains in dmesg about throwing away bytes, right? Please try
loading the box some more to make sure mouse survives some abuse.

> I just encountered one smaller issue (this  
> really is much better than before): The mouse just "jumped" once and 
> then got back to normal immediately. This gives me the following message 
> in /var/log/messages:
> 
> kernel: psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
> 

Your keyboard controller reported that the byte transmitted from the mouse
was mangled somehow and we should not trust it. I am not sure why it would
make mouse jump.. was there any mention of "reconnect" in the logs? Did it
happen just once?

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-15 13:16 Really annoying bug in the mouse driver Victor Hahn
2005-01-28  7:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-01  8:54   ` Victor Hahn
2005-02-01 13:56     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-01 14:19       ` Victor Hahn
2005-02-01 23:19         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-02  6:08           ` Victor Hahn
2005-02-02  6:26             ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-02-02 10:22               ` Victor Hahn
2005-02-02 15:44                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-03 15:05                   ` Victor Hahn
2005-02-03 15:17                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-01 13:29   ` zhilla

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