Re: strange problems ! with 5.4RC's

From: Nikolay Kalev <nkalev_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 10:16:30 +0300
Doug White wrote:

>On Tue, 3 May 2005, Nikolay Kalev wrote:
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>>I have some strange problems lately. This issue came when i started to
>>use 5.4RC's. For some reason after working 1-2days on my laptop without
>>reboot or something else my touchpad was barly usable. The effect was
>>like someone else was moving my pointer back to it;s possition like it
>>was stuck on that spot. This apeared twice from PRERELEASE to RC4
>>testing on my laptop, after reboot everything comes back to normal with
>>no such effects.
>>Could this be from a window manager or X ?
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>It could be from the Synaptics improvements -- there's a flag to disable
>them. Check the manpage.
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>>Here is a dmesg from my hardware :
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
>>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>>FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 #0: Mon May  2 02:23:48 EEST 2005
>>    root_at_lapi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPI
>>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>>CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.96-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>>
>>Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXS
>>R,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>real memory  = 393740288 (375 MB)
>>avail memory = 375463936 (358 MB)
>>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>>npx0: INT 16 interface
>>acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
>>acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>>acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x18> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
>>Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
>>acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
>>cpu0: <ACPI CPU (2 Cx states)> on acpi0
>>acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
>>acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
>>acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>>acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
>>pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>>acpi_video0: <ACPI video extension> mem
>>0x80000000-0x8007ffff,0x88000000-0x8fffffff irq 10 at device 2.0 on pci0
>>uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1800-0x181f
>>irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0
>>usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
>>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>>uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>>uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1820-0x183f
>>irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
>>usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
>>usb1: USB revision 1.0
>>uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>>uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>>uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1840-0x185f
>>irq 5 at device 29.2 on pci0
>>usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
>>usb2: USB revision 1.0
>>uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>>uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>>pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
>>pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
>>pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>>cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 3.0 on pci2
>>cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
>>pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
>>fxp0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) Pro/100 VE Ethernet> port 0x3000-0x303f mem
>>0xd0104000-0xd0104fff irq 11 at device 8.
>>0 on pci2
>>miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
>>inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
>>inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>>fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f0:84:fc:c7
>>fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A> mem
>>0xd0100000-0xd0103fff,0xd0105000-0xd01057ff irq 10 at device 13.0 on
>> pci2
>>fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
>>fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
>>fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:f0:41:20:11:19:1c
>>fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
>>fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
>>firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
>>fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
>>if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:00:f0:11:19:1c
>>fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:00:f0:11:19:1c
>>fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant
>>sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
>>fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
>>fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
>>firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
>>firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
>>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
>>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>>atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port
>>0x1860-0x186f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on
>> pci0
>>ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
>>ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
>>pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
>>pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff mem
>>0xd0080800-0xd00808ff,0xd0080c00-0xd0080dff irq
>> 5 at device 31.5 on pci0
>>pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x43525973)>
>>pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
>>acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
>>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
>>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>>kbd0 at atkbd0
>>psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>>psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>>sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
>>acpi0
>>sio0: type 16550A
>>ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq
>>1 on acpi0
>>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
>>ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>>orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdc000-0xdffff on isa0
>>pmtimer0 on isa0
>>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>>sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>>sio1: port may not be enabled
>>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2392961360 Hz quality 800
>>Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>>ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled,
>>default to accept, logging limited to 100 pack
>>ets/entry by default
>>ad0: 28615MB <TOSHIBA MK3021GAS/GA124A> [58140/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
>>acd0: CDRW <SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324F/U200> at ata1-master PIO4
>>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>>Accounting enabled
>>pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
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Thanks for the advice, it seems i don;t have synaptecs and the revision 
of psm.c is 1.79.2.2 . I;m tracking the RELENG_5_4 tree. The improvments 
are still in freebsd-current tree ?
I'll continue to observe this problems and see if i can genarate it.

Keep up the good work !
Received on Fri May 06 2005 - 05:13:39 UTC

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