Re: psmouse unusable in -mm series (was: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 unsusable on DELL Inspiron 8200, 2.6.15-rc1 works fine)

Ed Tomlinson
2005-11-24T02:29:07Z

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:57, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> * Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> [2005-11-21 22:43:50 -0500]:
>
> > On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:14, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > * Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> [2005-11-18 22:07:19 -0500]:
> > >
> > > > On Friday 18 November 2005 13:29, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > > > Nov 18 12:58:37 stiffy kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
> > > > >
> > > > > SOME STUFF MISSING? HUH?
> > > > >
> > > > > Nov 18 13:03:14 stiffy kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hm, this worries me a bit... Could you please try appying the patch
> > > > below to plain 2.6.15-rc1 and see if mouse starts misbehaving again?
> > >
> > > Dmitry,
> > >
> > > I applied the 5 patches to a plain 2.6.15-rc1. The mouse was well as if it was
> > > in an unpatched kernel. The problem just occured in 2.6.15-rc1-mmX.
> > > Plain 2.6.15-rc1 was fine before as well. So: actually no change.
> > >
> > > Need any more info?
> > >
> >
> > Marc,
> >
> > Thank you for testing the patch. It proves that your mouse troubles
> > were not caused by the patch I made so I am very happy. "No change"
> > is the result I wanted to hear ;)
> >
>
> Dmitry,
>
> there's a bug report filed against Debian's udev. You can read it here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340202
>
> The bug report, however, states that the problem is caused by udev under
> all variants of kernel 2.6.15. I'm writing this mail while running
> 2.6.15-rc1 and the mouse definitely works. Do you have any other hint?
> Seems to me like the bug report is only half the truth...

Marc,

Are you, by some slim chance, manually loading mousedev ( via /etc/modules) or
an init script? If so your mouse will work.

Ed Tomlinson