Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 18:12:02 EST


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:16:46PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> You are right, Synaptics does check entire packet and reports it,
> unfortunately many (most) distributions kill almost all GPM messages
> because it's too noisy.
>
> Anyway, I wonder if the patch below will help sync problem. If it does
> then we can kill the warning message later.
>
> The patch should apply to -test11 although will complain about offset
> as I have some extra stuff in my tree.

I did apply.


Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 4th byte
Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 1st byte
Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: psmouse: bad data from KBC - timeout
Dec 14 23:44:21 debian kernel: Synaptics driver resynced.
Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 4th byte
Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at 1st byte
Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: psmouse: bad data from KBC - timeout
Dec 14 23:46:22 debian kernel: Synaptics driver resynced.

However I did notice that it does hurt while xmms is playing (via alsa on i810
card). If I turn off xmms then it is a lot better. It is hard to reproduce those
messages without xmms. (mpg123 does it as well as xmms).

--
Lukáš Hejtmánek
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