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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: psmouse synchronization loss under load
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:49:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312192249.44633.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031220015131.GB9834@vitelus.com>

On Friday 19 December 2003 08:51 pm, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On a Dell laptop whenever I run a program that takes the full CPU, my
> mouse pointer goes insane and thrashes my X session every few minutes.
> It seems to have a mind of its own and always be able to make it to
> the Exit item in the root menu ;). Whenever this happens, psmouse logs
> and detects the error:
>
> psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization,
> throwing 2 bytes away.
>

That means that mouse interrupt hasn't been serviced for more than 0.5
seconds. You could try commenting out that piece of code in
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c but I think that's a sign that something
else is going on in the kernel - 0.5 sec is pretty long.

Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-20  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-20  1:51 psmouse synchronization loss under load Aaron Lehmann
2003-12-20  2:26 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-12-20  4:01   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-12-20  3:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2003-12-22 18:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13  0:54   ` Aaron Lehmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-09 13:30 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann

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