From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261476AbVFMVv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261458AbVFMVuL (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:50:11 -0400 Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.168.181]:30578 "HELO smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261472AbVFMVsE (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:48:04 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Voluspa Subject: Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:47:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050613234039.7d3ed895.lista1@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <20050613234039.7d3ed895.lista1@telia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506131647.53603.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 June 2005 16:40, Voluspa wrote: > > On 2005-02-23 16:53:04 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:29:49 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser wrote: > [...] > >> it seems to me like it is connected to disk activity... is that > >> possible? > > > Yes, It usually happens either under high load, when mouse interrupts > > are significantly delayed. Or sometimes it happen when applications > > poll battey status and on some boxes it takes pretty long time. And > > because it is usually the same chip that serves keyboard/mouse it > > again delays mouse interrupts. > > My notebook is an Acer Aspire 1520 (1524) with a Synaptics Touchpad, > model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9248b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4000 > > Kernels 2.6.11.11 and 2.6.12-rc6 > Synaptics driver 0.14.2 > > The "lost sync at byte" and "driver resynched" began flooding the logs > when I enabled Sensors --> Temperatures --> thermal_zone [THRC/THRS] in > the system monitor gkrellm. I haven't tried battery monitoring. > > There are only occasional mouse pointer jumps, but the logfiles grow > very quickly. I tried reducing the gkrellm updates from 10 times a > second to 2, but it only had a marginal effect. It seems a bit silly > that this powerful notebook (AMD64 Athlon 3400+) can't 'multitask' > correctly. > Try setting frequency to once a minute, that should help. -- Dmitry