Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261548AbVBAFOi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:14:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261549AbVBAFOi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:14:38 -0500 Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.84]:63148 "HELO smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261548AbVBAFOb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:14:31 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:14:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Peter Osterlund , vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050123190109.3d082021@localhost.localdomain> <200501312240.35776.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20050131210635.3c582934@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050131210635.3c582934@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502010014.29326.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1931 Lines: 43 On Tuesday 01 February 2005 00:06, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:40:35 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became > > > impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of > > > modified files open :-) > > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3 > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched. > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 3 > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched. > > > 1. Have you tried using external PS/2 mouse? > > 2. Have you plugged/unplugged into a port replicator? > > I have Dell Latitude D600, which does not have an external PS/2 port. > > But actually, I was caught away from home, working from a library, so I did > not have either PS/2 or USB mouse. I moved the cursor persistently for a > few minutes until I managed to raise a window in such way that it got the > focus, then I saved all files and closed all windows from the keyboard, > so no harm done, no problem. > > The kernel was running without resetafter set, unfortunately. > > If you have a patch which prints offending data from pktbuffer, I can > run that next time. > No I don't but by the looks of it (constant stream of bad data) it looks like somehow the touhcpad was reset back into PS/2 compatibility mode. resetafter would catch it and reinitialize touchpad restoring proper protocol. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/