Re: psmintr: out of sync

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:14, Cameron Murdoch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not sure what happened to the original message, sorry for the noise!
> 
> I am running a recent current:
> 
> FreeBSD opal.macaroon.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Mar 26 16:18:16 GMT 2003 root_at_opal.macaroon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> 
> The machine is a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. It is running XFree86-4.3.0 It has both a trackpad and a pointing stick (?what is the real name for this, I always call them nipples?), and it is seems to be the mouse I am having a problem.
> 
> Every now and again, but with great regularity the screen will freeze up, so that nothing works, not even the caps lock light. However, it isn't a crash as leaving the machine alone for a random amount of time will normally fix it. Sometimes this delay is a matter of seconds, other times I have left if for about 20+mins. Interestingly enough, pinging the laptop from another computer will always unfreeze it immediately.
> 
> As this occurs the following is printed to the console:
> 
> Mar 27 11:23:57 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1).
> 
> The above appears for each freeze, and every now and again this appears:
> 
> Mar 27 11:23:57 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0040 != 0000).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
> Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: re-enable the mouse.
> 
> When the re-enable the mouse message happens then the pointing stick stops working and only the trackpad functions.
> 
> This started happening with 5-RELEASE though not when -RELEASE was first installed. I am not sure what has caused it.

This has actually been happening to me a fair amount too since before
5.0-RELEASE and still on -CURRENT:
FreeBSD laptop.internal.irrelevant.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
#0: Sat Mar 22 12:23:42 GMT 2003    
root_at_laptop.internal.irrelevant.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i386

If anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know too

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Simon Dick					simond_at_irrelevant.org