Hi!
> 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.
Do you use ACPI? Using APM made the error go away for me.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:32:37PM -0500, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Do you use ACPI? Using APM made the error go away for me.
No, I don't. I was also seeing abrupt poweroffs under load so I
cleaned out the ventilation paths inside the machine. This made
both problems go away. Probably a weird software or hardware reaction
to the heat.