Re: [2.6.3] Mouse loosing sync (again)

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:08:01PM +0100, Kronos wrote:

> > > These happened while surfing web with little activity on eth0 and while disks
> > > were almost idle (-u1 is set on both of them). Using vmstat I see that
> > > I'm getting around 1300 interrupts per second while moving mouse (less
> > > than 1100 while doing nothing), so I don't think that there's something 
> > > spinning in ISR for too long.
> > > 
> > > Problem first appeared in 2.6.2, 2.6.1 is unaffected. I see that in
> > > 2.6.3 there's a patch which is supposed to fix this, but it still
> > > happens for me.
> > > 
> > > Any clue?
> > 
> > The bad parity messages definitely suggest a problem with the mouse
> > cable - either too long or broken.
> 
> Hum, but why does it work with older kernels? If I boot with 2.6.1 it
> works without problems.

2.6.1 ignores bad parity in mouse data.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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