PS/2 Slowness w/ 2.6.0-test9-bk2

PS/2 Slowness w/ 2.6.0-test9-bk2

[Shawn Starr]

Apon trying the latest -bk, I've noticed changes in how the kernel
determines mouse rate.

Although this was easy to fix with gpm, XFree86-HEAD does not seem to
honor any manual overriding of the mouse rate. Even when setting the rate
to 60 this did not work.

After reverting the psmouse-base.c changes XFree86 behaved like previous.

I would suggest reverting the patch until this issue is resolved. I don't
know what X is doing to get the mouse rate but it certainly ignored it
when I set psmouse_rate=60 in kernel parameters. Perhaps someone knows
something I'm not doing.

This isn't trying to start a flamewar but I'd prefer that these changes
were checked beforehand.

Thanks,
Shawn S.

Re: PS/2 Slowness w/ 2.6.0-test9-bk2

[Shawn Starr]

It should be noted that I have a Startech KVM.

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Shawn Starr wrote:

>
> Apon trying the latest -bk, I've noticed changes in how the kernel
> determines mouse rate.
>
> Although this was easy to fix with gpm, XFree86-HEAD does not seem to
> honor any manual overriding of the mouse rate. Even when setting the rate
> to 60 this did not work.
>
> After reverting the psmouse-base.c changes XFree86 behaved like previous.
>
> I would suggest reverting the patch until this issue is resolved. I don't
> know what X is doing to get the mouse rate but it certainly ignored it
> when I set psmouse_rate=60 in kernel parameters. Perhaps someone knows
> something I'm not doing.
>
> This isn't trying to start a flamewar but I'd prefer that these changes
> were checked beforehand.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn S.
>
>
>

Re: PS/2 Slowness w/ 2.6.0-test9-bk2

[walt]

Shawn Starr wrote:
> Apon trying the latest -bk, I've noticed changes in how the kernel
> determines mouse rate.
> 
> Although this was easy to fix with gpm, XFree86-HEAD does not seem to
> honor any manual overriding of the mouse rate. Even when setting the rate
> to 60 this did not work.
> 
> After reverting the psmouse-base.c changes XFree86 behaved like previous.
> 
> I would suggest reverting the patch until this issue is resolved. I don't
> know what X is doing to get the mouse rate but it certainly ignored it
> when I set psmouse_rate=60 in kernel parameters. Perhaps someone knows
> something I'm not doing...

I have the same problem, but I find that booting with the psmouse_noext
kernel parameter reverses the unwanted behavior.

My other 2.6 machine running with a KVM switch is not at all affected
by the recent change.