Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261768AbVBXDT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:19:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261614AbVBXDT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:19:29 -0500 Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.81]:45710 "HELO smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261768AbVBXDTI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:19:08 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Anthony DiSante Subject: Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:18:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <421C83A2.9040502@vollwerbung.at> <421D4460.6050308@nodivisions.com> In-Reply-To: <421D4460.6050308@nodivisions.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502232218.56665.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1929 Lines: 46 On Wednesday 23 February 2005 22:05, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > 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. > > I have this problem with recent 2.6.10 kernels too, but it has nothing to do > with load in my case; it happens whenever I switch my KVM to the linux box. > Hi Anthony, This is a bit different problem and we trying to find a reliable solution for it. > Long ago and far away, it used to be that switching out of X, then back in > (ctrl-alt-F1, then ctrl-alt-F7) would reset the mouse and stop the jumping. > At some point in late 2.4/early 2.6 that stopped working, and the only fix > was to unplug the mouse from the KVM switch and re-plug it. > > In Oct 2004 I posted to lkml with subject "KVM -> jumping mouse... still no > solution?" Dmitry Torokhov (hi :) responded that this would work on 2.6.9-rc3+: > > echo -n "reconnect" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/driver > > That was GREAT and it worked for a while, but now my last few 2.6.10 kernels > don't seem to care when I do that, and again, unplugging the mouse is the > only thing that works. I'm currently running 2.6.10-gentoo-r6. > It still should work fine, but in a bit different form: echo -n "reconnect" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/drvctl I.e. substitute "driver" with "drvctl" as now "driver" is a symlink to a currently bound driver that is set up by driver core. -- 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/