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 ;)
next prev parent 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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