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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:32:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030729233228.53d68237.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730050857.GF2601@openzaurus.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> 
> > > Loosing too many ticks!
> > > TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are you running with SpeedStep?)
> > > Falling back to a sane timesource.
> > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
> > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
> > > 
> > > Arrrrgh! The TSC is my only good time source!
> > 
> > Arrrgh!  More PS/2 problems!
> > 
> > I think the lost synchronisation is the problem, would you agree?
> > 
> > The person who fixes this gets a Nobel prize.
> 
> 
> If you set ps/2 synchronization timeout to 20 seconds, you are going to make vojtech
> unhappy (he likes that code :-), but at least 2.6.0 will not be worse than 2.4.x...

2.6 is currently much worse than 2.4: we're buried in what appear to be
many different varieties of PS/2 bug reports.


> Do you want me to create a patch?

Well I do not know what the problem with synchronisation is, not what
solution you propose.

But yeah, I like patches ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-01  1:46 another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem Albert Cahalan
2003-06-04  5:47 ` Yoann
     [not found]   ` <20030603232155.1488c02f.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-06-04  7:47     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-04  7:53       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-04  8:00         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-04  8:14           ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-04  8:40             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-04 19:20               ` Yoann
2003-06-04 23:09             ` Albert Cahalan
     [not found] ` <3EDCF47A.1060605@ifrance.com>
     [not found]   ` <1054681254.22103.3750.camel@cube>
     [not found]     ` <3EDD8850.9060808@ifrance.com>
2003-07-23  0:44       ` Albert Cahalan
2003-07-24 17:30         ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-25  1:46           ` Albert Cahalan
2003-07-26  3:19             ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-26 15:16               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-29  2:55                 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-07-29  3:14                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-29 12:40                     ` Albert Cahalan
2003-07-29 18:58                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-29 19:36                         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-29 19:43                         ` Chris Friesen
2003-07-30  5:08                     ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30  6:32                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-07-30 12:29                       ` Albert Cahalan
2003-07-30 19:18 Mikael Pettersson

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